A teenage king starts seeking God with no scroll to guide him, just hunger. Years later, workers renovating the temple find a dusty book, and when it is read aloud, the king tears his robes.

The Word of God still does that when it stops being furniture and gets read aloud. Today, let it read you back.

Josiah sought God for a decade before he ever held a Bible. Then the Book was found, and hunger met revelation, and a nation shook. Notice the order. His soft heart came first, and the Word landed on it like seed on turned soil.

That is the difference between reading and being read. Plenty of people own the Book Josiah wept over. What Huldah said God noticed was responsiveness, a heart that tears when truth arrives. As this year of reading rolls on, guard that above everything. Hard hearts finish reading plans too.