There was a small closet in the narrow hallway of my house when I was a young girl.  The hallway led to the living room from the bedroom that I shared with my sister.

You would open the closet at your own risk because you never know what could fall out.  Sheets were stuffed into a few shelves along with odd objects, like Dad’s typewriter.

But way down on the floor of the closet was a tired cardboard box that was busting at the seams.  It held a white album that gingerly held pictures from my parents’ wedding.

I treasured looking through it as I sat on the wooden floor of that hallway.  I carefully turned the pages to avoid dropping any of the cherished photos. The glue from the album was drying out.

I would imagine being there and loved seeing my mother as a beautiful bride, her dashing groom beside her with a wide smile.

What a sweet treasure among what otherwise seemed like just a cluttered closet.

King Josiah was probably one of the wisest eight-year-olds you would ever meet.  Forget the fact that he was KING at EIGHT, but he happened upon a treasure himself.

He had been king for 18 years when he wisely decided to rebuild the Lord’s Temple. As the people were working among the timber and beams, the Book of The Law was discovered and brought to the attention of King Josiah.

This discovery was a game-changer.

When he realized that the Israelites would be cursed for not following the law as instructed in the long-lost Book of the Law, he sprang into action.

This young king read the Book to the elders, made a new covenant to follow the laws, and had everyone pledge to follow it, too.

He treated the Book of the Law like treasure.

In a sermon, John Piper described the Bible like treasure.  Imagine you are in your backyard and you suddenly discover a chest with one million dollars, how ecstatic would you be?

You have a treasure IN YOUR HOME worth FAR MORE!  We should treat God’s Word like it is the most valuable thing you own.  

Spend time in this life-giving Book and may you be transformed by its words.

Proverbs 8:10-11 “Take my instruction and not silver, And knowledge rather than choicest gold. For wisdom is better than jewels; And all desirable things cannot compare with her.” (New American Standard Bible)

~Betsy

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