Neighbors

Robert Frost’s poem, called “Mending Wall,” contains this well-known line: “Good fences make good neighbors.” Frost used that line disapprovingly—but people have taken it out of context and used it to justify keeping their distance from their neighbors. Interestingly, the Chinese have a proverb that says, “To have a good neighbor is to find something precious.”

We can turn a neighbor into “something precious” by observing the biblical command to love our neighbor as ourself. If there is a fence, literal or otherwise, between you and your neighbor, make sure it has a gate so he knows he’s welcome in your life.

This is David Jeremiah encouraging you to get on the road to new life . . . discover God’s neighborhood . . . on Route 66.