Ignoring Boundaries

You ever deal with someone who is in your space?  We have this area around us and the list op people allowed in is short.  Very short.  Some people violate that space and just get a little too close.  Sometimes it's subtle and there's just something about that person that makes you feel uncomfortable.  Then there are the others.  You try backing up, but it's no good.  They follow.

In the movie "What About Bob?" a psychiatrist tries to set up boundaries between his home life and his patient.  Bob, played by Bill Murray crosses the line repeatedly.  What makes it worse is that his family and friends don't see the problem.  They love Bob.  Well in the movie it all works out fine and it is a very funny movies, but the idea of boundaries is important.

The greatest place for boundaries is not between professional and personal, but between right and wrong.  And there is a boundary.  We live in a world that believes that so much of what we do is just about our choices and what's right for me isn't necessarily right for you.  And while for some things that's true, on the bigger things, the important things, it couldn't be more wrong.  There is a boundary between right and wrong, and God draws the line.

We can flirt with boundaries and maybe we'll be all right, but maybe we won't.  The real boundary I think is actually between God's will and our own, and often we stand on the wrong side.