Psychology of Boundaries

Psychology of Boundaries

Jesus, faithful God,
Gain us through and through;
Use us thoroughly
To see Your purpose through.

Hymn: "Jesus, O living Word of God"

            I live almost on the banks of the mighty Cape Fear River, a river of great strength-current. The strengths of a river come from its banks-boundaries. The water rushing 20 miles to get to the ocean.

            Starting a new year, only the most indifferent would care about what is going to happen next year, next week. Most people never leave the self-centeredness to which they were born, a baby perfectly happy, fed, dry, warm place. Most people just want the basics of life, just want to stay a baby forever, someone or government caring for them. Satan has been translating scripture since the Garden of Eden. Man has always doubted God's word which makes Satan very happy. As man seeks to pick and chose (buffet-cafeteria) what HE wants to believe, like the baby, HE wants what HE wants. It does not matter what HE wants or thinks, IT IS A MATTER OF WHAT GOD HAS SAID.

            This writer has never known a psychologist or psychiatrist who really understands the inner man, the soul which never dies. The soul is a weightless entity without mass. We believe that every man is born with a conscience, even a soul. At death you burry the worn out body but the soul lives on forever in Heaven or Hell. Take the supernatural out of religion and you have nothing. Your most precious-private possession is your soul. Life is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11) and we truly believe the soul is in the blood. Only the Christian understands the work of the Holy Spirit of God. A place of comfort-mercy. A GIFT of grace through faith in the faith of Jesus Christ. Abraham was 75 years of age when promised Isaac. Can one even imagine the soul of Abraham? Years of waiting? The steps up Mt. Moriah (world's richest man, first Jew) as he was willing to sacrifice a son which he loved more than his own life? You must put flesh and blood on Bible Saints to understand. There are surely those whose souls are so black, surely absent a conscience. Think of the killing with machetes of 800,000 Tutsi's by Hutus in Rwanda, human beings who thrill in the desecration of houses of worship, the man who attacked Michelangelo's Pieta. What comfort could you give parents of young children killed in a school house if souls can not be touched with the comfort afforded by God's Holy Spirit? We would say that God had a far, far, far better place for them.

            Most of the people I know approach death as a very temporary ordeal. Everything is temporary to my family, my friends, my associates, everything seems so temporary. After all, the chicken and potato salad that the neighbors bring in is temporary. The floral offerings, the painted body in the casket, even the casket itself must look good just for a few days...just long enough for people to walk by and "stare."  This old, blind writer may not be here but one more day, one more week, one more year. Every minute is important, not a matter of indifference. My strength has come from my boundaries. We are not our own, paid for by a great price. The psychological world does not want to understand boundaries-parameters. Everything goes back to God's rule concerning one tree- "Don't touch it." In these words that sanity of the world rests, every evil-sin.

            It depresses me that we live in a post Christian world, even a post church world. The country club, civic club, golf club, are temporary. God's church is eternal. This writer is so thankful that he lived in a time of real Christians, real churches. A time when real believers sought sanctuary from the world in their place of worship with fellow believers...away from the tears, detractors, spectators, pretenders. We had our boundaries, the world flesh Devil: psychologist and psychiatrists could never understand these boundaries. They could never understand the soul in a human being which yearns for the best: the musician hitting the right notes, the scientists seeking the ultimate answer, parents and grandparents gloating over productive children. It is the essence of a human being which one can not describe. It is the essence that causes one to get up after falling-failure. The essence to rebuild after a disastrous fire. The momentum to keep on keeping on after physical disability. There are bounds controlling the human spirit and only the disciplined spirit will produce the character which God loves.

            Satan always pays off with counterfeit. Agenda 21, new world order, is a matter of control. Obama is spurred on, so arrogant because he is controlled by Satan. The record is clear, God knows how to deal with those who are not his own. God's sheep hear his voice and they know him. (John 10:27)  Forget the myth of the professional psychologist-psychiatrist. The chosen-elect-saved have a wealth which the world will never understand.

            "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates" (2 Cor 13:5).