Reading:
Proverbs 29:1-9

Or governor…. Or mayor…. Or any kind of elected leader….

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn” (2).

“The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it” (4).

“Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath” (8).

Even though I’m not any kind of political leader, I am in other positions of authority.

Does my leadership bless and assure and secure and protect and direct and rejoice those “under” me?

[Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father (Proverbs 29:3)]
from Proverbs 29:3

Reading:
Proverbs 28:20-28

Have you ever wondered what you would sell out for?

Or for what you would sell out someone else?

I have wondered that about myself…just not often enough.

Here’s what I mean:

“To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress” (21).

Bias and favoritism will lead to selling out for a bit of nothing.

I don’t fear them enough.

It’s too easy to hold certain “special to me” people to an easier standard.

That is not good.

And will lead to no good.

[He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack (Proverbs 28:27)]
from Proverbs 28:27