What do Robert Frost and the Apostle Paul have in common? They both wrote something interesting about a wall. In his poem, Mending Wall, Robert Frost shares, “ Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” He will use poetic expression and draw a word picture showing two points of view. One man feels he has nothing to, “ Wall in or wall out.” If that is not enough, the spring maintenance of repairing what nature and hunters have damaged proves to be burdensome. On the other hand his neighbor feels the wall is a necessity for he says, “good fences make good neighbors."
In Ephesians the Apostle Paul speaks of a wall of partition being torn down which separated Jews and Gentiles. Speaking as a Jewish person who at one time placed all of his trust in national identity and good works would have been the neighbor that loves the wall.
However in Jesus Christ he has experienced grace and found intimacy. Now there is something in him that “doesn’t love a wall”. In fact he will go on to say God has, “broken down the middle wall of partition between us." (Eph.2:14)
How are you with walls? Do you work hard to keep others out? Have you a built a wall in your life that keeps God out? Walls of hurt built of pain and disappointment will keep you lonely and empty.
When the words of the apostle Paul and the poetic expression of Robert Frost blend into a rhythmic conclusion I find a reflection of grace.
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