Wednesday, March 22, 2017

2 Chronicles 34

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images. v.3

Read chapter 34
King Josiah now reigns over Judah.  He's a good king that does right in the sight of the Lord.  He's only 8 years old when he begins to reign.  Can you even imagine that?  I was intrigued to hear a little bit of his progression with his walk with the Lord as he got older.  It says when he was 16 years old he began to seek the God of his father David.  He may have grew up in a godly culture but didn't seem to know or really care about God till he was sixteen to start checking God out more seriously on his own than just what he was supposed to know.  I kind of relate to Josiah in that sense in that I grew up in a Lutheran culture but didn't start seeking God myself till I was seventeen.  Well then the next description we have of his age is at 20 years old he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the idols of sorts.  After about four years of seeking God he realized all the corruption that was such a norm and started making a move to change that, he put his faith in action so to say.  Oh how great a blessing his life turned out to be from seeking the Lord at such a young age.  What is your age timeline like of when you started seeking the Lord yourself and when you started putting your faith in action?

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