The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

2 Kings 22:1-2, “Josiah was eight years old when he became king,

and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem… 2 And he did right in

the sight of the LORD and walked in all the way of his father David,

nor did he turn aside to the right or to the left.”

Can you, in your wildest imagination, ever think of becoming President

of the United States at age eight? I doubt it. Josiah’s father, Amon,

did nothing but evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Amon’s father,

Manasseh, had done. If everything you saw of your father or grand-

fathers was evil, how would you know to do good?

It was in the course of repairing the House of the LORD that one of

the workers discovered a scroll of the Law. They took the scroll to

Josiah, who was then 26 years old, and he immediately gave orders

that Judah was to do a “turn around” in the way they lived and start

living for the LORD. Josiah and the nation of Judah changed course!

All of the pagan things they found, they destroyed. They even dug

up the bones of their ancestors, who did evil, and ground them to

powder and scattered them to the winds. Huge boulders that had

been used in pagan worship were smashed literally into dust. Josiah

erased all evil from the land of Judah!

At the end of his life, the LORD said of Josiah,

“And before him there was no king like him who

turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all

his soul and with all his might, according to all the

law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him”

(2 Kings 23:25).

All that being said, Josiah was “not a patch” on the LORD Jesus Christ!

Christ, of course, is the Gold Standard for us. But, are we even now

In His sight what Josiah was? May God help us so to be! It all starts

with the Book!

We love and pray for each of you daily,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”