Daily Devotions

2 Chron 34:3-8 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.
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Josiah became king when he was eight years old, when he was sixteen he began to seek after the God of David, began to seek after the Lord. Notice the first thing that the young kind did, he broke down the altars of the idol in his presence. Before he could purge Israel his own life had to be in order. We will look at what guided him later in the week, but he first broke down the altars in his presence, the ones that were before him. It is a common trait found in most people that we see the faults of others and expect them to be corrected while looking past our own. Josiah got rid of the idols in his own life before he looked to the spiritual cleansing needed in the nation. I wonder as we look at the world around us, at the crime, low moral state, alcohol and drug use, as we look at those things and say how repentance is need, how a cleansing is, I wonder how many idols we look past in our own life? What do I allow into my life through the TV, DVD, smart phone, music, what do I allow into my life through those channels that I condemn in the lives of others? We may not physically engage in the sin, but we watch it and take pleasure in it, we listen and take pleasure in it, we are as much a part of the sin as the world is. Josiah knew that if Judah was to be cleansed he had to first be clean. What idols on in front of you today?

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