But this is what I commanded them, saying, “Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you. Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.” Jeremiah 7:23-25
He uses the phrase, “daily rising up early, and sending them.” What a metaphor! The Lord neither slumbers nor sleeps, and yet here we have a picture of one rising up early to complete a task, without delay, wholeheartedly. It is a picture, but it represents an eternal reality. Our God is infinite, and altogether past understanding. But He is also personal, and intensely so.
