Have you ever changed the boundary on a piece of property or changed the rules of a game...to benefit you?
Job 24;2 says "Men move boundary stones...". Back in Jobs day, I suppose, if a guy needed a little more grass for his sheep he just went out and moved a few boundary stones. And just like that...more food for the sheep.
"That was easy" as the commercial goes. Sometimes its too easy and moving boundary stones has not ever changed. I think that is why the scripture reads..."men move boundary stones..." its present tense.
Today a man might move a few numbers from one column to another or put his name on a coworkers effort or plagiarize someones work of words or change a time sheet or how about just bill for a few hours not worked. I heard about a man that did just that recently. A really good performer...bright career...suddenly unemployed.
Men move boundary stones...when they decide what is right in their own eyes...what fits their purpose today..what best accomplishes what they need at the moment. And sometimes ,really good people, in a moment of crisis or need or just deciding they deserve a little more...move stones.
Once while King David was praying, he made a request that can help keep us in the right frame of mind and keep our priorities and integrity in place..."Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."Psalm 51:10
Its the pure heart that keeps us from taking what is not ours and the steadfastness that helps us do it everyday.
Since it is true that men move boundary stones lets pick the ones we are going to move. Lets pick up some boulders. Lets remove the mountains of rubble called discouragement that have imprisoned a discouraged friend. Or how about we take on the once thrown hard rocks of guilt and forgive the guilty, lets lift the stinging stones of gossip from the many that have been wounded by their blows, and lets bring down the firmly place stones of loneliness that have walled in the lives of people that are right next to us everyday. Lets boldly reset the boundaries for those who are trapped behind them.
Yes "men move boundary stones" Men with a pure heart and a steadfast spirit move the right ones.
Job 24;2 says "Men move boundary stones...". Back in Jobs day, I suppose, if a guy needed a little more grass for his sheep he just went out and moved a few boundary stones. And just like that...more food for the sheep.
"That was easy" as the commercial goes. Sometimes its too easy and moving boundary stones has not ever changed. I think that is why the scripture reads..."men move boundary stones..." its present tense.
Today a man might move a few numbers from one column to another or put his name on a coworkers effort or plagiarize someones work of words or change a time sheet or how about just bill for a few hours not worked. I heard about a man that did just that recently. A really good performer...bright career...suddenly unemployed.
Men move boundary stones...when they decide what is right in their own eyes...what fits their purpose today..what best accomplishes what they need at the moment. And sometimes ,really good people, in a moment of crisis or need or just deciding they deserve a little more...move stones.
Once while King David was praying, he made a request that can help keep us in the right frame of mind and keep our priorities and integrity in place..."Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."Psalm 51:10
Its the pure heart that keeps us from taking what is not ours and the steadfastness that helps us do it everyday.
Since it is true that men move boundary stones lets pick the ones we are going to move. Lets pick up some boulders. Lets remove the mountains of rubble called discouragement that have imprisoned a discouraged friend. Or how about we take on the once thrown hard rocks of guilt and forgive the guilty, lets lift the stinging stones of gossip from the many that have been wounded by their blows, and lets bring down the firmly place stones of loneliness that have walled in the lives of people that are right next to us everyday. Lets boldly reset the boundaries for those who are trapped behind them.
Yes "men move boundary stones" Men with a pure heart and a steadfast spirit move the right ones.
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