DAILY READINGS: Judges 13; Isaiah 33; 1 Corinthians 11:2-34
The altars of Baalim…he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and [scattered] it. 2 Chronicles 34:4
Josiah was taking no chances. He did not just cut the idols down, he made dust of them and he scattered it. Those idols would never rise again. Romans 13:14 warns us: “Make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.” In confessing sin and abolishing idols we have held dear, make dust of them. Don’t leave the pieces around to reconstruct in time of temptation. “As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly,” (Prov. 26:11). —D. L.
All to Jesus I surrender, humbly at His feet I bow;
Worldly pleasures all forsaken, take me, Jesus, take me now.—Judson W. Van DeVenter