“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?,” PSALM 11:3
David’s fearful friends were wrong in suggesting that he flee, but they were right in suggesting that society must have its pillars or fall.
If the past has any lesson at all for the present, it is that we can build no stronger than our foundation. History’s pages are marked with individuals and nations that tragically fell because their supports were too weak.
If the foundations of society are destroyed, humanity sinks lower and lower. When the people replace the religion of the one true and living God with false religion, morality with immorality, justice with injustice, industry with indolence, and service to man with exploitation of man, that league of people is already declining.
Manmade laws alone and more money will not prop up a society. We must have more than a community of puppets on legal strings. The strongest control of the citizen is from within the heart by God’s moral principles. Almost every downfall of men and nations has been an inside job—weakness within.
David was a pillar in society, but some others were burdens. Every person belongs to one category or the other—a support or a burden. Quite a sobering thought.
May God help each of us be His spiritual pillars in our society.
Your friend & bro in Christ,
Steve