We are smelling the stench of rotted morals. We see it happening in our streets, families, and in our government when evil is allowed to remain unchallenged, degrading the human experience.
Sometimes, when a leader attempts to instill a sense of morality, their efforts can create disruption to what has become the status quo. The status quo will eventually experience a toppling of what has been allowed to remain unchallenged. That challenge will cause people to misinterpret what is happening.
Solomon wrote, “When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily. But wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability” (Proverbs 28:2).
Morality, like food, will decay over time because it has not been properly preserved. When a leader takes their position to correct and remove what has been allowed to rot, it will create an uproar before stability can be experienced.
This applies to all aspects of leadership. A pastor whose morals are compromised will produce a similar rot within their congregation. A parent whose morals have rotted away will produce children who will live a similarly rotted life, causing a community to bear the cost of their rebellion. In a nation, the rotting of our morality doesn’t happen because of our leaders. It occurs first in the population. A rotted morality will lead us to promote and elect those whose morality has been allowed to rot away.
Anyone who steps into a leadership role and attempts to correct the evidence of rotted morals will be seen as the enemy when they take disruptive steps to reverse what has been allowed to rot. This is why we need to pray for our leaders, no matter who they are or where they serve. To take these corrective steps to bring about moral stability can only be accomplished with God’s help.
And, as a recent Summit of global NGOs bluntly told 26 Sub-Saharan national leaders “The era of unaccountable giving coupled with greedy corrupt leaders is over. Either bring accountability to your governments, or we will shut off the flow of humanitarian grants.”
The international “Corruption Perception Index” measuring both internal and external perception of 180 nations noted “The 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) shows that corruption is a dangerous problem in every part of the world, but change for the better is happening in many countries.”