"In the Gatineau case, a 12-year-old girl took her father to Quebec Superior Court after he said she couldn’t go on a school trip for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet. When the father wouldn’t sign the release form for the trip, the child went to live with her mother, who encouraged the legal action that culminated in last week’s ruling."WOW! There actually are LOTS more stories like that going on right now...
"Nearly every action that the employer makes with regard to the suing employee will be under the microscope. And, a current employee that is suing their employor has access to other employees. Rumors can easily start to run rampant in the work place, and the risk of employee moral issues start to become a concern. The probability that 'copy cat' cases will be filed, is also significantly increased."
The GROWING list of those supposedly UNDER authority suing/accusing/undermining the one supposedly IN the position of AUTHORITY in EVERY type of business, sports organization, family relationship, etc. is staggering. It's nauseating. Those entrusted to OVERSEEING organizations/groups of people are, over time, losing their ability to effectively LEAD. But this isn't a "new thing." If you've taken Weigh Down's "Weigh Down Advanced" seminar series (please do if you haven't...it is SO revealing about the SPIRITUAL war that goes on all around us all the time), you'll be familiar with Weigh Down founder Gwen Shamblin's telling of the great "CEO story." It's a parable-like recounting, using MODERN terminology, of how satan (who at the time was an ANGEL) attempted to undermine and overthrow GOD'S authority in heaven so long ago. Satan eventually was cast OUT of heaven for his total lack of respect for GOD and his attempted mutiny against GOD. GOD was the "CEO" of all of creation...the Creator of heaven and then earth. Satan was an "employee," created to honor and love and serve the generous and awesome GOD who made EVERYTHING. Satan became jealous of that power and rebelled against GOD, earning him expulsion. In these times when the mentality, especially in the United States, is an attitude that says, "I've got my rights!" may we NEVER forget that the first sin wasn't the "deception of Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden by satan," it was satan's ANTI-authority and jealousy towards GOD Himself! This is deep stuff, and it touches EVERY aspect of our lives! Employers and employees, husbands and wives, parents and children, coaches and players, law enforcement officers and private citizens...you get the idea. This touches us ALL.
Today on WDWB LIVE, we plan to talk about having the RIGHT and GODLY perspective on authority...how to be godly while IN a position of authority and how to be godly while UNDER others' authority. Gwen has said throughout the history of Weigh Down's videos, audios, and writings that making GOD SOVEREIGN in your life is KEY to understanding Him, knowing Him, and loving Him. He is so GOOD, and He deserves to be understood and loved and WORSHIPPED! Tune in today at 3:30pm CST, and we'll share in this discussion about how important a role that AUTHORITY plays in our lives. And if you miss a LIVE segment, don't worry! We normally put out our LIVE programs in PODCAST form as well! Finally, may today be a day when we TRULY have GOD as our ONE and ONLY GOD. May we live, breathe, talk, think, eat, drink, spend, and act WITHIN our loving and kind authority's will. As the great King David said about GOD and His commands and how he felt about them in Psalm 16:6,
"The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places..."
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