Growing up in El Paso, Texas, our school yard had a fence around it. My friends and I played all the way to the edges, enjoying the freedom that the fence gave us. It was normal to see kids even hanging on the fence talking inside the safety of our boundaries.
Conversely, when we moved to Midland, Texas, and there were no fences around the school, I noticed that my friends and I all stayed in the middle of the school yard. We never went to the edges. We never hung out near the street. It wasn’t safe, the ball could end up in traffic, someone could grab you. We knew to stay in the middle, and still we had scary moments when strangers simply strolled across the campus. We usually would head back into the confines of the school courtyard.
Most of us have no idea how to do life with a holy God. His ways, his view on life, is all beyond our comprehension. So God did us a huge favor. He put up some fences. We call them the ten commandments. Some might see those fences as limits on our freedom, but the reality is that like those fences, everything inside those boundaries is ours to enjoy.
It's like God says, run out to the edges, play all over the field, and be safe. Hang out with your friends, use up every inch of the field in play. You see the goodness in Christ is that we have no burden of proof. The law does not condemn us; it instructs us. It's a fence around the school-yard that says, play all you want, all the way to the edges, and don’t worry about what’s outside, your safe.
So as you head into this week, God has given you the whole yard, play hard. I’ll race you to the fence!
Growing up in El Paso, Texas, our school yard had a fence around it. My friends and I played all the way to the edges, enjoying the freedom that the fence gave us. It was normal to see kids even hanging on the fence talking inside the safety of our boundaries.
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