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Day 120, or April 30.

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You never know what you have until you lose it.

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Our thoughts today come from 2 Chronicles chapter 34 verse 14.

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While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the temple of the Lord,

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Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the Lord that had been given through Moses.

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See now the big picture surrounding this verse.

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The very last godly king to rule Judah was Josiah.

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He became king when he was eight years old, and by the time he was twenty-six he was well

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on the way to repairing the temple fully so that it could be used as God's house once

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again.

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For over fifty years it had been allowed to fall into disrepair, because of the ungodly

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kings who reigned before Josiah.

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As carrying out repairs in the temple, one of the priests found the law of Moses.

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This could have been what we now call the Pentateuch, but it may just have been the

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book of Deuteronomy.

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Whichever it was, it revitalized the nation, but this was the last revival that Judah would

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enjoy before the Babylonians came and took them into exile, into the land which is today

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called Iraq.

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In today's action step, have you ever lost something without knowing it, and when you

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find it you wonder how you managed without it?

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This was the experience of the Israelites when they rediscovered God's Word.

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They celebrated Passover and then promised to be people of the Word forevermore.

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The United Kingdom used to be the land of the Word.

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We had missionaries going to every corner of the world.

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Today we are one of the biggest mission fields in the world.

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The Bible has for many been totally discredited and is no longer taken seriously by whole

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swathes of society.

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I remember teaching a walk through the Bible seminar in a prison and being told, this was

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really interesting.

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Nothing like church.

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May we be forgiven for making the living Word boring.

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Our team of Bible explorers teaches in hundreds of junior schools every year.

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What are you doing in the UK mission field?

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Care to join us?