In Judges 21: 25 we find the end result of all that happened to Israel in the first seven books of the Old Testament.  The people had followed a number of leaders.  Moses and Joshua were two.  But the people kept refusing to do as God told them to do.  And then God would punish them.

The people would cry to God and beg him to rescue them.  He would, and then the cycle would begin again.  When things went bad, when things went wrong, the people cried to God.  When things went according to their desires, they forgot Him.  Same-o, same-o today.

So the people begged for Judges.  God gave them judges.  But the people didn't want to follow the judge's rulings.  They disobeyed the laws.

Judges 21: 25 "In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes." 

That is what people want.  To do what they want to do.  To ignore laws that they don't like.  You've heard people say, "Don't tell me what to do."  We hate authority.  We want to be our own boss.  We don't want to conform to any rule we don't like.  As the verse in Judges says, we want to do what we want to do with total disregard to others.  They can like it or lump it.

Chaos.

  I remember a platoon of Marines I once saw at Paris Island, S. Carolina (boot camp) who were marching in perfect step.  With buckets on their heads.  Now that's unity.  They were in perfect form, counting cadence, yelling in perfect harmonic time. ( I won't tell you what they were yelling!!!)  Nobody was going his own way.  It was really wonderful to watch.  It made me very proud of them.

Things work better if we follow a leader.  Your life goes better if you follow God's commandments.