Yesterday we saw the first dozen years of Josiah’s reign including the discovery of the Book of the Covenant followed by Josiah’s responsiveness to this ‘new’ Truth. He not only leads the nation in repentance but also inquires more fully through God’s prophetess, Huldah. She reiterates the full consequence of the nation’s forsaking God but also gave God’s encouragement to those who were responsive.
Tenderhearted. How often we harden ourselves against change, against what God wants to do in our lives. Here we have the King of Judah who has done nothing willfully against God being tender of the heart, openly responding to the Lᴏʀᴅ and forthright before the nation. Tenderhearted and humbling himself, open to God, not blaming evil ancestors or not having the Torah in his youth. God sees and hears this offering, and sends His word,
How shall we respond to the Lᴏʀᴅ? Is there anything for which we individually should repent? Or as we think of our family, nation and world, how tenderhearted are we or should we be? God’s listening.