the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Kings 21:19-26; 2 Kings 22:1-7
Amon succeeds Manasseh. After two years of an ungodly reign, he perishes by a violent death. And little Josiah, his son, ascends the throne at the age of eight. We recall that his name had already been mentioned some centuries earlier by the prophet who had gone up to Bethel to speak against the altar in the presence of Jeroboam (1 Kings 13:2). This son necessarily had to be born of the house of David to execute justice and judgment. Thus we see that in the presence of the evil He was bearing with, God’s thoughts had been turned towards this child many years earlier. But for all eternity they were resting on the little child of Bethlehem who would become the Saviour of the world.
The reign of Josiah, like that of his ancestor Hezekiah, corresponds to what we call a revival. In Christendom’s state of sleep, the Holy Spirit brings about, here and there, similar revivals. That of which Josiah is the remarkable instrument has this character: a new interest for the house of God, and a return to the sacred Book. Then finally, there is a concern to separate from evil. We shall have the opportunity to consider these points in greater detail.
