2 Chronicles 30:1-5: in context

Hezekiah, reforming the nation, wants to restore the Passover, which had long been neglected. He sends letters throughout all Israel and Judah, even to the northern tribes, inviting everyone to come to Jerusalem and keep the feast. But there is a problem: they cannot keep it at the proper time, because not enough priests have consecrated themselves and the people have not yet gathered. So the king and the assembly decide to hold the Passover in the second month instead of the first, an accommodation, so that the scattered people can actually come and observe it.

The interesting thing is the flexibility. The Passover was fixed by the law to the first month, but Hezekiah, facing a situation where keeping it then was impossible, makes use of a provision in the law itself for a delayed observance and moves it to the second month, so that a people who had neglected it for generations can finally keep it together. He does not let a technicality about timing keep the scattered nation from coming to God; he finds the room the law allowed to gather them in. There is a picture here of a certain kind of gracious wisdom, that bends where it can to make room for people to return, rather than using the letter of the rule to shut them out. Hezekiah's heart was to gather the neglectful people back to God, and he was willing to accommodate their weakness, a delayed feast, to make it possible. The goal was not the perfect keeping of the calendar but the return of the people to the LORD, and he shaped the observance to serve that goal. It reflects the heart of God himself, who makes room for the returning, who provides a way for those who have long neglected him to come back, meeting them in their imperfection rather than barring the door over a technicality.

Do I use the letter of a rule to shut people out, or do I share Hezekiah's heart to make room, bending where I can so that the neglectful and the scattered can find their way back to God?