If so, a quick scan of recent headlines would have indicated that he was not alone in his belief. It was almost as if there had been a shift in moral values. If this was true, it might explain the apparent moral malaise in American business and society. Pennington then goes on to discuss that perhaps the solution for much of what ails American business could be solved by application of the good old Scout Law and Promise. One of the main complaints in American business today is that companies do not have employee loyalty because they no longer exhibit any loyalty to their employees.
Folks seem to have forgotten that loyalty is a two-way street.
Those in positions of authority or responsibility must be loyal to those under them as well or institutions have no more strength than a house of cards. No scout who is an employer could take advantage of the unfortunate situation of his employee in order to make more money out of him, and such conduct would be gross disloyalty both to the person employed and to the scout law itself. In this Psalm, this steadfastness is in both God and the Psalmist, demonstrating that even the Lord recognizes that this is a two-way street. Of course it extends to peers as well. Scouting is about teamwork, and a team without loyalty to the other players soon falls prey to grandstanding players each out to impress with no thought for the overall good of the team.