BOUNDARIES

PARENTS of teenagers know that the boundary lines between parent and child can get blurry real quick. The older the young person gets, the more apt they are to rebel against restrictions. Many a parent has had to remind their teenagers of who’s who. The propensity of the young person is to mentally erase the parent-child distinction because they don’t want to be told to clean up their room. They don’t want restrictions; they want freedom without boundaries, which erases the line of demarcation.

God wants it to be clear that there is a major difference between man and God—a big-time difference. God is transcendent. God is infinite. Man is not. There is only one God. Man is not Him, so he needs restrictions.54