"Even Better"
For about the last year or so, we've been reading to my oldest son Catherine Vos's old book The Child's Story Bible. It's a loooong book. So far, the kid's slogged through 222 large, two-column pages of stories about the ups and downs of Israel's and Judah's various kings.
Tonight's story was about King Hezekiah and the rout of the Assyrian army of Sennacherib. The book, simplifying things a bit perhaps, presents Hezekiah as a really good king. Here's how it ends:
At last the promised fifteen years were over. Hezekiah slept with his fathers. He was buried in the finest of the tombs of the sons of David. All Jerusalem and Judah mourned for this good king.
At which point my son looked up and, with the perfect expression and voice of a kid who's in the know and really really juiced about it, said, "Yea, but an even better king was coming!"
Talk about warming a daddy's heart! Amen to that, little guy!
That is greatness, my friend!
Posted by: Denny Burk | May 30, 2008 8:22:13 PM