“If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you?” answered every mom to every kid who ever made the mistake of arguing for something because “everyone else is doing it.”

The herd mentality is real. And not just with adolescents. Adults, too, make choices on everything from what to wear to where to eat based on the herd. My wife and I aren’t going into a restaurant unless there are plenty of cars parked outside.

Choosing a meal is one thing. Choosing your god is another.

His family history and cultural environment was stacked against him. Idolatry and immorality permeated the very air he breathed. But, Josiah “did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.” (2 Kings 22:2)

Josiah didn’t jump off the cliff.

You don’t have to either. The God sought by Josiah at age sixteen is still to be found today. (2 Chronicles 34:3)