The Lane

The construction of a history of any given society has always been an interesting process. A group of people have always seemed to be holding the ladder for a select group to the top of societal order. Those that seemed unbothered by the holding of such a ladder were either in support of those that did or slain by such climbing.

Then

History is decorated with leaders that set out to achieve great things, they had intentions and ambitions, they travelled far and they reached deep into the hearts of the people they touched, deep, whether for good or not. We have seen how the course of an entire nation’s history was defined by the interests and ambitions of a single individual.

When you think about it all, we have all been part of that individual, we have seen them rise and we have supported them. On many occasions we have even resisted those that stood to oppose them well knowing that we are doing the right thing.

Today

We are also aware of leaders that owned the groups of people that they set out to lead. They owned the land upon which they stood. These men consumed with the great desire to serve did many unthinkable things in the name of service. They set out sacrificed not only themselves but also the people that they led or sought to lead.

In this era we still see this. Men and women that have not only owned us, or the resources we all should jointly own, but also the power that we handed them, the power that we as the groups led, should own. These men have taken everything and they have owned it to themselves.

The question then would be what causes that. Seeing things from the top gives a wide perspective of what things ought to be. Sometimes the diversion takes the intentions of the leader far from what they had intended. The greater good then seems greater than it was before and we all know that the greater the good, the bigger the sacrifice.

When we don’t set a desired destination together, it becomes had to know when one of us has deviated, harder still is bringing the deviated to accountability since from the beginning we left them with the liberty to choose as they want and we basically told them that we shall not be as concerned as long as we get a small fraction of their thinking and ambition and interests.

So when they tell us that they have the best of our interests at heart, we are supposed to simply believe them and follow.

Tomorrow;

W e take heart in the fact that we are not the first generation of people to experience this. People have come, they have plundered, they have owned, they have done well and yet they left. For those of us that have been given the privilege to watch, let us keep our eyes open.

Leadership is a collective responsibility even when it is done behind closed doors. We are all responsible for the direction our nations or small groups take. To sit and blame our state on the deeds or misdeeds of a small group of people is an injustice that will see even our children crippled. Even in the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Nebuchadnezzar and the Nero, some few, totally unrelated to the leaders managed to succeed. And even in the days of Jesus, some died of disease even when they lived in his neighborhood.

The point is, “Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy." Revelations 22:11