With everything he had

Then the king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.” Such a Passover surely had never been held since the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was held before the Lord in Jerusalem. Moreover Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord. Now before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses; nor after him did any arise like him. – 2 Kings 23.21-25

When all was said and done we read that the king who was king during Judah’s darkest days was unique. He was unlike any other king.

What made Josiah stand out was that he turned to the Lord with all his heart and all his soul and with all his might.

Do you remember the passage where Jesus summarised the Law?

But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’

Isn’t it interesting that Deuteronomy summarised the Law this way and Jesus says the same thing and here we read the same thing about Jesus?

And he did that to the extent that it was said of him ‘there was no king like him before him or after him.’

Josiah was noted because he kept the essence of the Law. He was not of course perfect, but he did turn totally to the Lord.

How is our devotion for God?