Drastic Measures | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | June 23, 2022
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🗓️ 23 June 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.5 | Our Reading titled, Drastic Measures, was written by Tim Gustafson. |
| 0:15.0 | The ornate ceremonial bow in Quiver had hung on the wall of our home in Michigan for years. I'd inherited them from |
| 0:22.5 | my father, who acquired the souvenirs while we were serving as missionaries in Ghana. Then one day, |
| 0:29.4 | a Ghanaian friend visited us. When he saw the bow, he got a strange look on his face. |
| 0:35.6 | Pointing to a small object tied to it, he said, |
| 0:38.7 | That is a fetish, a magic charm. |
| 0:41.4 | I know it has no power, but I would not keep it in my house. |
| 0:46.0 | Quickly, we cut the charm from the bow and discarded it. |
| 0:49.4 | We didn't want anything in our home intended for the worship of something other than God. |
| 0:55.7 | Josiah, king in Jerusalem, grew up with little knowledge of God's expectations for his people. |
| 1:02.4 | When the high priest rediscovered the book of the law in the long-neglected temple, |
| 1:07.4 | Josiah wanted to hear it. As soon as he learned what God had said about idolatry, |
| 1:12.6 | he ordered sweeping changes to bring Judah into compliance with God's law, changes far more |
| 1:19.5 | drastic than merely cutting a charm from a bow. Believers today have more than King Josiah did, |
| 1:27.0 | much, much more. |
| 1:29.2 | We have the entire Bible to instruct us. |
| 1:32.6 | We have each other, and we have the vital filling of the Holy Spirit, |
| 1:36.9 | who brings things to light, large and small, that we might otherwise overlook. |
| 1:53.5 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Second King's Chapter 23, |
| 1:55.2 | verses 3 through 7. |
| 2:00.8 | The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord, to follow the |
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