Every good leader (that would be you and I, as we do lead, at a minimum, ourselves) needs a counterbalance, and when that is either absent, devalued, or eradicated, chaos and strife are not only birthed, they thrive.
We have collectively turned our back to God, and in so doing, we have forfeited our Counterbalance as a people. When one has no Counterbalance, all that is left is one's own fallible, feeble musings to decree what is right.
Reminds me of Deuteronomy 12:8, "You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes..."
But it does not stop there.
Our own perceived thoughts and rights when challenged almost always breeds offense first and foremost. When offense is the first leap, it is a fatal leap. I would encourage everyone to read "Bait of Satan," by John Bevere.
We have an epidemic of offense in our society that not only prevents, but shuts down *respectful* exchange of ideas, observations, and thoughts; and as a result, we have indeed become a royally lost, stunted, obstinate people.
When one combines the absence of God as mankind's Counterbalance while so quickly taking the bait of offense, we have doomed ourselves to utter darkness, save Christ.
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