Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God

2 Chronicles 34:22-33

Hilkiah and those the king had sent with him[b] went to speak to the prophet Huldah who was the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.

She said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people—all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah. Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all that their hands have made, my anger will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.’ Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard: Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the Lord. Now I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place and on those who live here.’”

Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin pledge themselves to it; the people of Jerusalem did this in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.

Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territory belonging to the Israelites, and he had all who were present in Israel serve the Lord their God. As long as he lived, they did not fail to follow the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

Why?

Josiah is a good king in Judah before the disaster comes upon their land. Because a king repents and confesses their sins, the Lord delays the disaster poured upon them for God is love.

Let my heart come closer to the Lord and imitate and pray the Lord to show me the way and the word that I can say to serve the Lord.

How?

May my heart and my mind come closer to the Lord and may the Holy Spirit of the Lord show me the words to witness the glory of the Lord. For I am nothing.