Forgiven By God

Our Sunday School lesson one morning was on King Josiah. The Bible says he was 8 when he became king and he did what was right in the sight of the Lord. If you read through 1-2 Kings most of the kings did not follow Gods ways so it's pretty amazing that at age 8, his spiritual compass was already pointed in the right direction. Read a little further and it says in the 18th year of his reign (that would make him 26) he ordered repair work to be done on the temple of the Lord ... . While cleaning and patching up everything they found The Book of the Law. It had been lost for several years. When King Josiah heard what The Book of Law said, he was really upset. You see Josiah had thought he was living a godly life and pointing his people back to God, but in reality he didn't know Gods Word for himself. His leadership, while done with good intentions, wasn't complete because he did not know what the Word actually said. If you continue reading, it's says he went and

A couple of weeks ago, a deaf man came to ride our zip line. He did not bring an interpreter and none of us knew sign language. He also couldn't read lips. It was hard to communicate with him about all of the safety rules and what he could expect while out on the course. I wrote out the main rules on a piece of paper before we left so he could at least read them and get some sort of idea about what to expect. The rest of the tour was spent using motions to try and explain what would be happening next. Everything was going pretty smooth, but when we got to line 6, I noticed the wind had picked up. Line 6 is 1100 feet long and goes across Broken Bow Lake. When the wind is blowing it slows you down and makes getting across a little more challenging. Normally, we tell people to cannonball, like you would into a swimming pool, and it helps you build up speed.  This helps you get across the line with less problems. The problem was, we were at the beginning of line 6.