Today, I am reading and commenting on  2 Kings 22-25.

A few days back I commented on how King Hezekiah deserves the high esteem in which we generally hold him, but my favorite king of Judah is Josiah.  Today’s passage tells us that, “ He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.”  He ordered the repair and cleansing of the temple.  When the repair began, the priests found a copy of the Book of the Law and brought it to him.  When Josiah read the Book of the Law he realized that the people had badly broken their covenant with God and feared the consequences.  He inquired of God about what he had learned, and God answered that His anger would indeed fall upon the people of Judah.  Nevertheless, Josiah destroyed all of the idols throughout the land, even into the land which had answered to the kings of Samaria.  He cleansed the land of idolatry and got the people to renew the covenant which God had made with their ancestors.  He did all of this despite knowing that it would not stop the destruction which God had promised His people if they violated their covenant with Him.  Josiah did all of this solely for the reward of being faithful to God.  We too should recognize that the greatest reward for serving God is that we get to do God’s will.

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