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.
There are fourteen generations between King David and King Judah. So, it’s approximately 420 years, twice as long as the United States has existed.
Considering the history of Israel and Judah, the ebb and flow of godliness among those who were the seed of King David and ruled in Judah, there must have been vast portions of time when, as in our day, history was “rewritten” to make David out to be less of an example. At times, the Word of God fell into less prominence than at other times. Josiah began to seek after the God of David, his father, when he was sixteen. It was a full ten years later before they even found “the book of the Law of the LORD.”
Thank God for people who seek the Lord even when they have little to go on. I’m guessing that before discovering the Bible, it would have been similar to those centuries before the printing press when believers may have had only portions or fragments of the Word of God. They followed the Lord the best they knew how until there was a full and infallible book in their hands. (I notice that Josiah, who had been seeking after the God of David for more than a decade, rent his clothes and had a fresh “vigor” in his relationship with God once he had read the Word of God.)
I cannot tell what will be on the morrow. I do know, just as the prophets told Josiah, there will be a day of judgment and pouring out of God’s wrath. I also know that God will spare those who seek Him and are safe in the shelter of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Who can tell whether there may be another “time of refreshing” when we see the heart of the people return to follow after the God of their fathers? I believe the Word of God gives us liberty to pray for a fresh revival of souls who open the Bible and seek to follow God as He is revealed in “the book…”
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