Rule with uprightness as the foundation of your throne

“Love uprightness you who are rulers on earth, be properly disposed towards the Lord and seek Him in simplicity of heart.” Wisdom 1:1

God commissioned human beings to fill the earth and to subdue it. When God addresses us as rulers, He wishes to remind us about the charge He has laid upon us, to rule - that is conduct the affairs of the spirit, soul and body which has been placed under our control in uprightness. Uprightness makes our rule well-founded; injustice makes it collapse. Let us therefore love what is upright and hate what is evil. Let us take great care to prepare our hearts, thoughts and dispositions aright with humility, simplicity and modesty because it is by means of our heart and our thoughts which proceed from it that we either rise or fall in God’s presence.