Psalm 1-2/101

I grew up in a rural community and building fences were not done by landscapers, it was a family affair. Long before HGTV romanticized home projects, in Varina, it was known as Saturday! My father would make sure the lawn mower passed by our bedroom windows if we were still enjoying slumber...the every reliable briggs and stratton alarm clock!

But putting up a fence was not just for any Saturday. You wanted a Saturday when the week prior had ample rain. Soft ground, water saturated, soil loosening, dirt unbinding rain for days prior. I see rental equipment advertised as they lay in parking lots, catching the attention of people driving by; I always look longingly at the augers, the oversized cork screws with a motor. Then check my hands, certain there must be a lingering blister there from decades before...we had a post hole digger.

What does Psalm 1 and 2 speak to me? They say, saturate yourself in God's presence. He wants to sink some posts deep into our hearts, posts that He will in turn use to build boundaries, truth fences, not to rob us of meaning and pleasure, on the contrary, but to release us more freely into the depths of eternal life.

In the Apologetics Study Bible, Psalm 101 is entitled "A Vow of Integrity." Make this vow, fences up!

Pastor Fred