MInTheGap

Josiah was the last good king of Judah before God sent Judah into
captivity.  He became king at a very young age, and was moved in his
heart to remove all of the idolatry from the country and to restore
temple worship.  He commanded the Levites to bring the Ark of the
Covenant back to the temple.

With the heart he had for God, God spared the kingdom’s destruction
until after Josiah died.  In all of these things, Josiah had two faults:

1. He failed to realize that God uses both good and evil to accomplish
his will.  Had he read the earlier chronicles of Joshua’s battle in the
land and the judges, he would have known that God left some enemies for
Israel around to keep the Jewish people in check.  He would also have
known that, at times, people that were non-Jews were used of God to
accomplish His tasks.  Had he taken this into account, he should have
let the king of Egypt take on Assyria instead of going after him.

2. His son that followed had an evil heart, so Josiah did not invest in
his children the save desire for God.  Maybe his son’s apathy or
idolatry was a result of the fact that God didn’t save his father from
death by the Egyptian king.  I don’t know that this side of glory we
will ever know.  The point is that we need to make sure to invest our
children with the things of God.

At
whom in your life are you looking and not getting an appropriate
perspective?  Some peope that don’t approve of the President (or the
last President for that matter) need to realize that the king’s heart
is in the hand of the Lord, and though we may not agree with what he
does, God has him there for a purpose.

For whom are you an example?  Are you a good one?

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