kings are done

don't drink coffee, and then a huge soda right before you want to go to bed. it would have been so nice to fall asleep before midnight.

i finished my outline of kings today. it was by far the hardest single school assignment i've ever done in my life. i learned a lot tho. i feel like i'll always know the book of kings pretty dang well. note to self, don't be like jeroboam or ahab, be like david and josiah. i find it interesting that my friend josiah stumbo is just like josiah king of judah. the story is found in 2nd kings 22-23, if you know him, read it.
okay i'm just gonna bullet point a few sweet lessons i learned
1) solomon's wealth was in direct condradiction to the torah
2) the kings main downfall, the sin that they are always being rebuked by the prophets for is idolitry. josiah is the first king, and the is like third to the last king before the exile, to actually remove all the places of worship from Judah. and here's where i see a corilation to my own life, even the good kings in the book of kings don't tear down all the places of worship for false gods, they never go all the ways in removing temptation, even if they themselves don't fall into that sin. josiah is so rad because he totally rips that crap down, things that had been up since the first king after solomon (that's a lotta years). we should be serious about removing sin entirely from our lives. this is not, however, the point of the book of kings, its just a cute sunday school lesson
3) the kings that aline themselves with the prophets, who act as G-d's word, are good
4) as the king goes, so goes the people.
a. who is my king?
b. in what way does he go?

well, a: jesus, and b: perfect

kings in cool. i should post my outline on here, not that it's great, but it was fun to do