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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 2 of 5
2 Kings 23:1-11
After the sentence of judgment that the LORD had just pronounced, Josiah might well have concluded: what good then is it to purify this place on which the LORD is going to pour out His anger? But a true believer never reasons in such a way. Even on the eve of the final judgment, the Scripture enjoins: "He that is holy, let him be holy still." (Revelation 22:11). In applying the words that have been read to him from Deuteronomy 31:11, the king, who now recognizes for himself the value of the Word of God, is concerned to make it heard by all "both small and great". Have we the same desire to make known to those around us the living and powerful Word?
The zeal of the house of God "eats up" Josiah as it will later on devour One greater than himself (John 2:15-17).
Let us remember in this connection the question that the apostle puts to the Corinthians. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" (1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 6:19). Would we receive a noble visitor in a house full of disorder and dirt? Would the visitor himself feel at ease there? How much more when it is the divine Host who wishes to make His dwelling place in our heart. To give Him due honour means first of all to put this heart in order, by removing all that clogs and defiles it.
