Emptied Out Thrones And Hollowed Out Homes

It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts, for a throne is established on righteousness. (Proverbs 16:12)

Have you ever seen what happens when a house is deserted and left without someone to "keep up the place?"  It's like someone vacated so fast that everything that made the house a home was emptied out, hollow and desolate, a shell of what it could have been.  Righteous authority is the ultimate authority. God is good…wise…and…sovereign. He is the basis of Righteousness. We wouldn’t know what it was unless we have a standard to observe. Therefore, God shows us Himself…in His word…in His world…in His Son. He reveals righteousness. We know that God is good for we see His goodness manifested. But we don’t see everything good as yet. But it will be restored in the earth once again. It was here before the fall of man. Since righteous authority is God’s plan this is why we’re told that wicked acting kings are abominable in God’s sight. Now we aren’t under the domination of a king in our land. But I think the principle here to discover is the principle of righteous authority. And when leaders of nations, churches, and families act outside of the revealed righteous standard that God sets before us, we are operating in illegitimate authority. This is dangerous to many, but especially to the leader. Wicked, or ungodly, acts are an abomination to the Lord. And the Bible declares that anything the Lord determines as an abomination never turns out well. Sin is the rejection and refusal to accept God’s righteous authority. Sin brings judgment. Kings can lose their thrones.  Fathers can lose the trust of those he leads and whole families can become abominations, imploding and caving in on the hollowness and emptiness that the lack of righteousness brings.