Do You Restore God’s Word?

[232 words] “Go and inquire of the Lord for me and for the remnant … about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the Lord’s anger that is poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written in this book” (2 Chronicles 34:21). Josiah was a restorer of right worship and living in a generation that had strayed greatly from God’s Word. In fact, the book of the law had been lost for quite some time, lying unread and unfollowed, no doubt, in a dusty and forgotten corner of the temple—or perhaps Hilkiah knew all along where it was and was waiting for the terrible reigns of Manasseh and Amon to end and a king with the repentant spirit of young Josiah to come to the throne? The…