He began to purge.

"For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images" (2 Chronicles 34:3 KJV). King Josiah was a young boy, eight years old, when he began to reign over Judea. Even so, he turned the city of Jerusalem and the land upside down for our Lord. He was tired of seeing his family, his loved ones, and the Lord's children bound by evil. This young boy, at the age of 16 years old, began to seek the Lord with his whole heart. When he did so, the Lord convicted him about all the evil, the idols, the goddesses, and the gods that had been brought into the nation. From that time on, he began to purge the idols from the high places. He took down and destroyed every pagan altar and the priests that sacrificed at the altars. Just as his great grandfather Hezekiah had done, Josiah did an even greater work. There might be idols in our lives that tend to keep us back from reaching the promises of God. This young king saw what these idols could do to a nation from the inside out and what it did to his dad and to his grandfather. He saw how the enemy came in, deceived, manipulated, and murdered his family and consumed a nation. Today there are many bound by idols, and it isn't just the adults but young children also. All across the land, we see idols. These idols could be sports, movies, music, video games, sexual perversion, pornography, drugs, or alcohol, just to mention a few, but all are forms of idols. When things are put first before God in our lives, it becomes an idol and it will only bring self destruction. We must get rid of these idols before we find ourselves deep in bondage and hunted by the devil. God bless you. Amen