UNDERSTANDING THE COVENANT WITH GOD

2 Chronicles 34
8 :    In the eighteenth year of his reign, after HE HAS PURIFIED THE LAND AND THE  HOUSE
        OF THE LORD,  JOSIAH SENT SHAPHAN son of Azaliah and  MAASEIAH the governor of
        the city   and JOAH son of Joahaz the secretary of the state  TO REPAIR THE HOUSE OF THE  
        LORD HIS GOD.
9 :    THEY CAME TO HILKIAH THE HIGH PRIEST and DELIVERED to him the SILVER that
         had been BROUGHT TO THE HOUSE OF GOD,  the SILVER WHICH THE LEVITES,
         ON DUTY AT THE THRESHOLD, HAD RECEIVED FROM MANASSEH, EPRAIM, and
         ALL THE REST OF ISRAEL, AS WELL AS FROM JUDAH and BENJAMIN and the inha-
         bitants of JERUSALEM.
10 :   IT WAS THEN HANDED OVER TO THOSE SUPERVISING THE WORK IN THE
         HOUSE OF THE LORD, and THESE MEN, working in the house, USED IT FOR REPAIR-
          ING AND STRENGTHENING THE FABRIC;
11 :   THEY GAVE IT ALSO TO THE CARPENTERS and BUILDERS TO PURCHASE HEWN
         STONE, and TIMBER for rafters and beams, FOR THE BUILDINGS WHICH THE KINGS        
         OF   JUDAH HAD ALLOWED TO FALL INTO DISREPAIR.
12-13:  THE MEN DID THEIR WORK FAITHFULLY    UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
          JAHATH and OBADIAH,  LEVITES OF THE LINE OF MERARI,  and ZECHARIAH and
          MESHULLAM, MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF KOHATH.   THESE ALSO HAD
          CONTROL OF THE BEARERS and DIRECTED THE WORKMEN OF EVERY TRADE.
          THE LEVITES WERE ALL SKILLED MUSICIANS,  and some of them were secretaries,
          clerks, or door-keepers.

When we understand what it means to serve the Lord, our lives are transformed into entities of light.

29 :   AT THE KING's SUMMONS   ALL THE ELDERS OF JUDAH and JERUSALEM WERE
         ASSEMBLED,
30 :   AND HE WENT UP TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, TAKING WITH HIM ALL THE
         MEN OF JUDAH, THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, THE PRIESTS, and the LEVI-
         TES, THE ENTIRE POPULATION, HIGH AND LOW.
         THERE HE READ OUT TO THEM THE WHOLE SCROLL OF THE COVENANT
         WHICH HAD BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.

After we have been transformed,   our heart is been prepared to receive the Word of the Lord.