Just like in Josiah’s day, it had been there all the time. In a safe place, in plain sight. In fact it had become a fixture, referenced in conversations, but never once opened and read. People thought they knew what it contained or that it held no relevance to their lives. There were a few people “of the book” who actually took the time to read it.

Read Reflect When Josiah read the Book of the Law that had been found in the Temple, he was completely persuaded by what he read, and realized that for years his people had not been keeping the covenant. This chapter is impressive for its descriptions of how thoroughly Josiah tried to put things right. The […]

Read Reflect Be silent as you enter the throne room of the Lord of Hosts today. Watch and wait in quiet awe and reverence so that you can see God in his righteousness. As you sit in silence, turn your eyes away from everything happening around you and contemplate your own life. Are there things […]

Read Reflect Today you face a choice … Will you seek the Lord, or will you follow the idols of this world? Will you seek righteousness and obey God or will you do your own thing? Will you clothe yourself in humility or will you assert your own self-will and pride? Humbly turn to the […]

Read Reflect We are all looking for something more than what the observed world contains. Sometimes we look with hopeful expectation, like mariners searching the horizon for signs of an undiscovered country. Sometimes we look over our shoulders as one does in the woods as dusk comes down, the old ancestral terror of the hunted […]

Read Reflect Joseph must have felt like such a failure. Mary must have been so mad at him, or trying hard not be. But she couldn’t have been as mad at him as he was at himself. He didn’t really know how it had happened. A lot of it was out of his control. There […]