Today's Passage: 2 Kings 23
Are you familiar with the lengths that swimmers go to in order to win? They go to extremes in order to shave off a hundredth of a second off their time. They shave, eat a strict diet, and work out a rigorous routine. Their sport is their focus and they let nothing get in the way of victory.
King Josiah was like that. He was righteous and walked before God. God was his focus and he was determined that Judah would return its focus to God also. There were other kings who did right in the sight of the Lord, but they did not destroy the high places; they left the door open for sin to reenter the nation. Like swimmers, Josiah went to great lengths. He destroyed all the high places of idols. He drove out pagan priests. He ground idols and things used to worship them to dust after burning them with fire.
In Hebrews 12, Paul encourages us to go to great lengths to be completely focused on and given to our Lord. He exhorts us to lay everything aside that hinders our relationship with Jesus. Is this our focus? What is our focus? What commitments do we remove every hindrance for? What are the high places in our lives that we refuse to destroy? Jesus says over and over in John 14-15, that if we love Him we will obey Him. Let's go to great lengths in our lives to obey Him, to love Him, and to be free in Him!!
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