Today, I am reading and commenting on  2 Chronicles 34-36.

When we look at King Josiah, we tend to focus on the discovery of the Book of the Law and his reaction to it.  We tend to over look that most of his reforms happened BEFORE the Book of the Law was discovered in the Temple.  At age 16, Josiah began to seek God.  This probably corresponded to the time when his regents began to let him begin to exercise some authority as king.  At age 20, he began to purge the kingdom of idols and places of idol worship, not just breaking down the places of idol worship, but desecrating them.  This probably corresponded to the time when he came into his full authority as king.  When he finished in Judah, he continued cleansing the land of idols and places of idol worship into the territory of the Northern Kingdom.  It was only after he had cleansed the land of idol worship that he ordered the repair of the Temple, during which the Book of the Law was found.  Until today I had never really thought about how when Josiah sought God, one thing just followed after another for good.  The same thing will happen for us.  If we seek God with all of our hearts, souls, and minds, God will reveal the next step we should take in order to further His will for us. Don’t worry about what you do not know of God’s will, just do what you know.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.