When we decide to pattern our expectations after those of the patriarchs and kings of Israel, we must adopt the attitude that they had. Sometimes, this attitude was a gift of the LORD, from an early age in life; as was the case in the very young king Josiah.
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
(2 Kings 22:1-7)
Sometimes, the attitude was slow in developing; as is the lesson that is contained in the fullness of David.
In all cases, though, there is one destination toward which we must set our course. In the latter day, at the dawn of the New Age, the Lord Jesus Christ presented the governing wisdom that must regulate our travel, in the LORD, in the kingdom of man.
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