Proverbs 22:28 "Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set."
This verse made sense to me for Israel, because for them the land was the inheritance of the Lord. To remove a landmark (Strongs 1366) or boundary would be to either steal land that was not part of your inheritance, or to give away the inheritance of the Lord. To Israel that would have been akin to Esau's despising his birthright.
At first I couldn't see how this verse applied to today. However, the word "remove" in the Hebrew, (Strongs 5253) denotes removal as retreating or turning away from. For me then this verse was a reminder not to despise or ignore "boundaries" that have been held by believers over time. If the church has generally held that certain practices were worldly or exemplilfied worldliness, it behooves me to examine and respect those principles rather than dismissing them without thought as inapplicable or out of date.
It would also extend itself then to those practices that the Lord has called me to. Just like the verse "Buy the truth and sell it not... ( Prov.23:23a), which encourages us to hold onto those things that the Lord has called us to in our lives and not to "sell" those truths for worldly goals or temporal pleasure.
