Lost and Found: The Book of the Law

During the time of the Prophet Jeremiah and the reign of Josiah, King of Judah, a forgotten “Book of the Law” was found.

When it was read to King Josiah it shook him to the core and caused him not only to do away with all the idolatry and evil that had been tolerated and even promoted by previous kings but also to reinstate the Passover celebration… just as God had commanded Moses.

All of these prescribed regulations had been found in the forgotten “Book of the Law” that they accidentally stumbled across in some forgotten room of the Temple.

The text continues that this celebration of the Passover, in the 18th year of Josiah’s reign, had not been observed “like this” since the days of the Prophet Samuel. Samuel was prophet during the reigns of King Saul and King David. Josiah was the 16th King of Judah. That’s a long time not to celebrate the Passover as prescribed in the “Book of the Law” Think about what that means! Even King Solomon (among others) didn’t celebrate the Passover properly.

What would happen if we lost the “Book of Jesus Christ”? Perhaps buried on some shelf with hundreds of other books. Perhaps sitting on our night stands… un-opened, un-read and never fully understood.

What would happen if suddenly we opened the “Book of Jesus Christ” and found in it all the solutions for the problems in our lives and began to make corrections?

And then we stumbled across some directions in the “Book of Jesus Christ” for the New Testament Passover… the Lord’s Supper.

Imagine the turn from unfulfilled and bankrupt lives to lives of being blessed because we took a book off of the shelf and off of the nightstand and put it where it belongs… in our hearts.