Through both the last and the current U.S. presidency, a focus has been our Southern border. Some of us want it to be maintained and some want it to become nonexistent. On our properties, we have property lines that are formalized with legal documentation to note that “this is mine and that is yours.” Then we have rules for living such as traffic laws, school standards, and parental expectations.
These boundaries and borders are necessary for orderly and effective living. It started in Genesis 1:2 when God created everything with an “earth that was without form and void.” To not have borders and boundaries is to be like a lake that is flooded and just runs everywhere. Even our bodies have boundaries – our blood flows through vessels and our food processes through a digestive system. Boundaries and borders protect us and guide us.
Over the years, a mindset has grown of anything is okay and ‘if it feels good, do it.” The damage of that has been evident in family issues where there is no structure of two parents and their children and in all of the gender confusion that goes with changing personal pronouns like you change clothes. As academic standards have become more fluid and “equitable,” U.S. students have become less intelligent according to world ratings. The results of this have been adult service providers such as doctors who cannot do critical thinking, but rather have to diagnose you per a computer screen.
Like anything, boundaries and borders must be managed with wisdom. All of us living on U.S. soil came from immigrants initially except for Native Americans. There has been a legal way to enter through the border. God’s rules, school, rules, and rules of society are all for us, not us for them. When an exception is in order, it can be worked out just like a physical by-pass when some body part is not working right. Otherwise, life is best when lived in the form of its creation.
