What's in your pocket?

Not wanting to bore people with overlong posts, I'll try and keep this one short. The girls and I read through II Kings last week. When we had finished we sat down and talked at length about the things that we had read. The girls thought that many things were disgusting! We sat and talked about most of the kings and the things that they had done. (good and bad) We also spent a fair amount of time discussing the miracles that were done through Elisha.

One of the questions that I asked the girls was "which king finally tore down the high places?" It was neat to hear Kaylin talk about reading all the instances where the Bible said that a king "did that which was right in the sight of the Lord...howbeit he did not remove the high places". She said "UH, it was getting so frustrating that no one would tear the high places down, then I read about Hezekiah and that he removed the high places, and brake the images and I was like YES!" (When she told me this, she gave a fist pump into the air)

As a father, I think these are memorable moments. Times when our children read the Word of God, and not only understand it, but are feeling it as well. Kaylin then talked about how neat it was that Josiah heard the book of the Lord (II Kings 22) and he rent his clothes...
1And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes. 12And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king’s, saying, 13Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
What really stood out to her was that Josiah, upon hearing it, knew right away that God would be mad. She said that Josiah did not have a godly father ( II Kings 21:9 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did. 21And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: 22And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD. 23And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. 24And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.) (and had been raised worshipping other gods) but that he recognized right away what was right when confronted with the Bible.

This leads me to my questions. Due to the fact that a copy of the Bible is so readily available to us, have we begun to take it for granted? Do we no longer look at the Word with a fresh perspective? Are we willing to read and study; even if it means that we may find out the way that we have always done things may not be Biblical? Do we ever think of God as someone that could be angry with us, or is God always our cheerleader?

I hope that you see what I am getting at. God is not a trinket that you put in your pocket as you merrily go about your own way. God is bigger than your...

Respectfully, Jon