A Phonebook

2 Kings 22
I just pulled out the handy phone book to look up where a business was located and was thinking about what a convenience it is to have this. What if you had to ask around or drive around looking every time you wanted to go somewhere new? It would be a big pain, that's for sure. (Makes me wonder what it was like before all these helpful things were created.) Anyway, what if that were the case with the Bible? That's why God was always having people write the Word down and save it somewhere because he knew eventually it would get forgotten otherwise and it wouldn't be good to have people asking around and wondering what to do. He wanted people to be able to go look on the "scroll" whenever they needed to. We find an instance in the Bible when just such a thing happened and God's Law seemed to be forgotten. It is recorded in 2 Kings 22 . Somehow over the course of a few generations God's Law had been forgotten about and people were out doing whatever they pleased, which was making God angry. Fortunately, the kings heart was seeking the Lord, and he sent for the help of the priest, then repented and humbled himself before the Lord upon hearing the Word and realizing that the people hadn't been adhering to it. He later followed through with all kinds of measures to return the land to obeying God and His commandments. We are blessed to live in a time when almost anyone that wants can have access to the Bible and we don't need to go searching for it. We have paper copies, audio versions, electronic versions, and my favorite, the internet has it all. (I love Bible Gateway!) For us there can be no excuse for not knowing or obeying God's Word. We have no reason not to be reading and studying it all the time, because it is available wherever we go. Let us not take that for granted, but instead make use of all the great ways we can plant the Word inside us in whatever method we prefer.

A fun, classic song to go with this devotional is Basic Instructions by Burlap to Cashmere. Sorry, can't find a video for this one.