Early Risers

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Early Risers And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. Mark 1.35. One of the best ways to meet the Lord is to rise up early in the morning, before activities of the day can interfere. This apparently was the practice of Jesus himself.

There are also many other occurrences in the Bible. Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord. In order to set up an altar, Jacob rose up early in the morning. When Moses gave the people the laws of God, he wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill. Later, when he was to receive the commandments a second time, Moses rose up early in the morning and went up on to Mount Sinai.

Joshua rose early in the morning to lead Israel over the Jordan and to capture Jericho, and to take I, Joshua, rose up early in the morning. During the time of the judges, Gideon rose up early on the morrow to prove God's will through putting out the fleece. Hannah and Elkinah, in praying for the son who would later become Samuel, rose up in the morning early and worshipped before the Lord. No doubt there are justifiable exceptions, but late sleeping is in general not a good thing. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?

When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? He that sleepeth in the harvest is a son that causeth shame. It is good to seek the Lord early each day. I love them that love me, and those that seek me early shall find me. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord, in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up.

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