Spirit of Leadership

LEADING WITHOUT LEADERSHIP and posses my nature and characteristics, and are there fore meant to rule with justice.” Compare this perspective to much of human behavior, and you will see that mankind has degenerated to engag ing in inhumane activities. Moreover, this description of what happens when humans are not in touch with their Source is a graphic illustration of our present-day leader ship dilemma. If you read the questions and statements in this psalm, you will recognize the parallel to today. “How long will you defend the unjust?” In other words, in your courts, the crim inal gets off while the victim is humiliated. This is because you’re not in touch with yourselves. You can’t even see the wrongness of your way of doing things. You’re so corrupt; you go after money rather than righteousness or justice. “How long will you show partiality to the wicked?” You give tax breaks to the man who is greedy while you burden the poor man with more than he is able to pay. That’s show ing partiality. “Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless.” You don’t take care of the orphans. You fill your stomachs full of food but let children sleep under bridges. “Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.” You don’t look after people; you oppress them. All these ques tions are a demand for effective, competent, compassionate leadership. He says that all this is going on because of the peo ple’s ignorance of who they truly are: God’s image. That

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