The Walls and Gates of LifeNeh 1:3
Walls and Gates around a building serve significant purposes in
every building.Every meaningful building has its wall and gates.
The more
precious your building is to you, the more sophisticated your walls and gates are. If
you value your property, you will have tick walls and strong gates.
Walls and gates are not just for setting limits but rather
for setting standards. Only the qualified or those properly identified can gain
access in.Walls serve as protectors and boundary makers. They protect
intruders and unwanted guests and rodents into the building as well as act as a
barrier to you being an intruder yourself to another man's property.
Gates serve as means of entrance to a building. When shut
nothing goes in or out.
Every Life is like a building which takes stages to build 1Cor 3:9. Thus, every phase of life should have its walls and gates.The gates of your life are the means by which your control
the flow of virtues and vices in and out of your life.Proverbs 25:28 “Like a city whose walls are broken through
is a person who lacks self-control”. This tells
us the definitions and importance of these structures in a building (life).
These are the standards, values and controls you set up for your life. They
serve as protectors in life. Your level of discipline and self-control keeps
you from doing wrong and prevent wrong from getting to you because you are
disciplined against it.
In Nehemiah 1:3 in was reported that the remnants of Israel
were in trouble and disgrace as the walls were broken and the gates burned down.
A life without discipline will fall into trouble and will be disgraced. Trouble
from enemies, intruders and raiders. When your life is without God’s standards
you fall prey to the vile of the devil, people can treat you as they feel
without recourse or value to you.
Standards and principles come with its own
reward since they never fail in every area of life. A life lived without walls
will see no such rewards but will be disgraced at the time of rewards.
The best walls to build life on is the word of God, because it is sure and secure. Build your life based on God’s set standards to avoid the
troubles and disgrace of life.
Shalom
Holydynamite.
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