Oluyomi Ola-David Insights

The human society was built on the foundations of justice. What can we do when the foundations are destroyed? For how long can society last, without tottering to collapse, with unjust judges? Can safety be sustained when all the foundations are as unstable and moveable as water? Can unstable and defiled souls prosper? What can we do when our judges show partiality to the wicked? Who will do justice to the afflicted and needy? The appointed judges of the land have become mighty in their own eyes. They have ceased being little in their own estimation. They have eaten their fill and care no less for the hungry. They have become loathesome princes, galloping in arrogance on the grounds on the poor. They have become fat with belongings of the Most High. Their souls love violence. They have entrenched strange doctrines and made the heart of the faithful to faint. They shoot bitter words like arrows at the blameless. Their understanding has now become darkened. Their knowledge has now become

Why do they embrace and kiss with deceit? Why do they trade in lying words and false visions? Why do they oppress the stranger, the fatherless, the widow, and the innocent? Why do they burn incense of worship to strange deities? Why do they bow to unknown gods? Why do they deliver messages they were not given? Why do the priests rule by their own power? Why are there multitudes of self-appointed speakers of God? Why are they telling the future by signs and omens? Why have they sewn magic charms around their arms? Why do they say worthless things in the name of being sent by God? Why do they speak the deceit of their own heart? Why do they walk according to the stubbornness and imagination of their evil hearts? Why have they profaned the way of the Lord? Why are they full of abominable mixture? Why have they guided the people into foolish, slippery, and idolatrous ways? Why do they walk in lies and trade in error? Why do they steal God's words from their neighbours? Why do they prop