"Proud, Blind or Hardheaded...?"
Our challenge in understanding God's Kingdom, including the economy and government which are its foundation, is - though submitted cooperation through our human agency is critical to seeing it manifest; we don't tie His hands or alter His will through pride, spiritual blindness or hardheadedness! We simply limit the kingdom's influence in our own lives by displaying these behaviors! So, "entitled leaders" who think the world revolves around them must be building something else - the "kingdoms of men". God has mercy on our innocent ignorance, but refuses to let the world go to hell while we "have church"! WS-3