Whether it is politics or monarchy, we need to choose (and submit to) leaders that God has appointed. What is most important to note in this passage is that God expects the kings and rulers to play by the same set of rules (God’s Law) as those they govern. In our world of power-lust and greed, this seems to be a failed idea. How does God set the plan for this to happen? Much the same as the discussion last week on purity, we need to have everyone one on the same page.In verses 18 and 19 God gives two simple instructions to any newly elected king. First, the king was required to write the law by his own hand on a scroll. WOW. Given the day and age we are talking about this is not only incredible, but also very powerful. The king had to take a copy of God’s law and personally write it on a scroll, the whole book! If that was not enough to say to the king, “This is for you too,” he was also required to keep that scroll with him and to “read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees and not consider himself better than his brothers…” The great news is that with this command comes a promise: “Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in .” This week consider carefully whom you consider better than yourself.