Day 120, or April 30.
You never know what you have until you lose it.
Our thoughts today come from 2 Chronicles chapter 34 verse 14.
While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the temple of the Lord,
Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the Lord that had been given through Moses.
See now the big picture surrounding this verse.
The very last godly king to rule Judah was Josiah.
He became king when he was eight years old, and by the time he was twenty-six he was well
on the way to repairing the temple fully so that it could be used as God's house once
again.
For over fifty years it had been allowed to fall into disrepair, because of the ungodly
kings who reigned before Josiah.
As carrying out repairs in the temple, one of the priests found the law of Moses.
This could have been what we now call the Pentateuch, but it may just have been the
book of Deuteronomy.
Whichever it was, it revitalized the nation, but this was the last revival that Judah would
enjoy before the Babylonians came and took them into exile, into the land which is today
called Iraq.
In today's action step, have you ever lost something without knowing it, and when you
find it you wonder how you managed without it?
This was the experience of the Israelites when they rediscovered God's Word.
They celebrated Passover and then promised to be people of the Word forevermore.
The United Kingdom used to be the land of the Word.
We had missionaries going to every corner of the world.
Today we are one of the biggest mission fields in the world.
The Bible has for many been totally discredited and is no longer taken seriously by whole
swathes of society.
I remember teaching a walk through the Bible seminar in a prison and being told, this was
really interesting.
Nothing like church.
May we be forgiven for making the living Word boring.
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