Don't follow the crowd

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: - Exodus 23.2

We all remember the reasoning with our parents (and our children).

Child: Can I go to wherever?

Parent: No, I would rather you not?

Child: Why?

Parent: Because I don’t want you to be there.

Child: But everyone else is going.

Parent: If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you?

Going along with the crowd has always been a temptation. If the whole is doing something we don’t want to be left out or miss the action or whatever.

So it is well worth a warning about ‘don’t follow a multitude to do evil.’ Peer pressure is especially tough when we are young, but we never get over it. With all the changes taking place in the world today it may seem at times like we are the only ones trying to do right and that everyone else is doing wrong.

But God says ‘don’t do it’ we don’t need to follow along with the masses. Look where the world is headed – it is headed to destruction. Their doom is sealed. When it is all said and done all that the world does is empty and futile and temporary. Why is that so appealing when our future is to spend all of eternity in the glories and joys of heaven?

‘Follow that which is good’ God says, even if everyone else is doing wrong.

After all – ‘..wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat and …narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.’

So follow the narrow way instead of the crowd.