{"id":2253,"date":"2012-10-11T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2012-10-15T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T10:25:12","slug":"rising-up-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"Rising up early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>But this is what I commanded them, saying, &#8220;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\u00a0 and\u00a0 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\u00a0 them.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah\u00a07<\/em>:23-25<\/p>\n<p>He uses the phrase, &#8220;daily rising up early, and sending them.&#8221;\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But this is what I commanded them, saying, &#8220;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\u00a0 and\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rising up early&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}