Thursday, November 8, 2012

Seek or Sink

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles, carved idols and cast images.

One of life’s humor is the marriage of structure and spontaneity. That's from an OC mom who puts everything in order (and labeled!), while her three fun-loving people equate fun with messing around. It’s a daily riot here.  Nagging starts when they come to me for missing items. They knew they'll have to bear with my ‘I-told-you-so’ while we're retracing their steps. But my hope is for my kids to just see the value of neatness, even safekeeping. But so far, it’s not sinking in.     

On his eighth year as king, Josiah saw the need to seek answers for the sinking state of Judah. Many believed it was from the royal annals that he found his key. With reference to his walking as David did, the latter probably was the teenage king’s favorite hero. And because David sought God, Josiah did as well. Amazing how, despite that the Scripture was still missing at this time, reform was able to take place. Most likely, God preserved remnants to help him retrace their steps and see idolatry as the root of it all.  Here, it is no humor to mix order and messing around. And so he cleansed Judah of all hand-made idols, and later, he called them in for true worship.

‘You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart’ was God’s word through the prophet Jeremiah, Josiah’s contemporary. Quite a thought on who’s really lost and who’s found here. For at those times when we loosen our grip on God, we become lost ourselves. And when we finally see Him at the end of our search, then we are found.  Truth is, even our purest desire to seek Him is from God. Apart from His grace to call us, we will never hear. There is no way for Josiah, with Ammon as father and Manasseh as grandfather, to be inclined to righteousness. But the good Shepherd called him valuable, went after him, and brought him home.  To me, this sank in.
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Seek or Sink

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles, carved idols and cast images.

One of life’s humor is the marriage of structure and spontaneity. That's from an OC mom who puts everything in order (and labeled!), while her three fun-loving people equate fun with messing around. It’s a daily riot here.  Nagging starts when they come to me for missing items. They knew they'll have to bear with my ‘I-told-you-so’ while we're retracing their steps. But my hope is for my kids to just see the value of neatness, even safekeeping. But so far, it’s not sinking in.     

On his eighth year as king, Josiah saw the need to seek answers for the sinking state of Judah. Many believed it was from the royal annals that he found his key. With reference to his walking as David did, the latter probably was the teenage king’s favorite hero. And because David sought God, Josiah did as well. Amazing how, despite that the Scripture was still missing at this time, reform was able to take place. Most likely, God preserved remnants to help him retrace their steps and see idolatry as the root of it all.  Here, it is no humor to mix order and messing around. And so he cleansed Judah of all hand-made idols, and later, he called them in for true worship.

‘You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart’ was God’s word through the prophet Jeremiah, Josiah’s contemporary. Quite a thought on who’s really lost and who’s found here. For at those times when we loosen our grip on God, we become lost ourselves. And when we finally see Him at the end of our search, then we are found.  Truth is, even our purest desire to seek Him is from God. Apart from His grace to call us, we will never hear. There is no way for Josiah, with Ammon as father and Manasseh as grandfather, to be inclined to righteousness. But the good Shepherd called him valuable, went after him, and brought him home.  To me, this sank in.