Wisdom with Bad Rulers in a Bad World

Bad leadership. It seems we often are subject to it. Our government, our workplace, our communities, or even our own families – we experience bad leadership. This problem is as old as time itself. To make matters worse, bad leaders contribute to an already fallen world. Bad leaders make a bad world more bad. Solmon has been on both sides of the fence. It seems that Ecclesiastes is written in Solomon’s twilight years when he faced the sobering reality of his own impending death. Let’s see what he has to say about living wisely in the midst of unjust rulers and authorties in our lives so that we can be prepared to face God when we inevitably die.