I have put my words in your mouth. I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant. The consequence of Jeremiah's sense of call and inner view of life, as a prophet, was perpetual conflict with the society around him.
Spatial relationships become clear in an instant in the overview.
Nothing will ever, be quite the same again. One way or the other, your psyche is shaped by the experience of being in love. Or when you journey through the depths of grief, walking in the valley of the shadow of death. To know that life is fragile, each day a gift, to know that love is all that matters, to know the candor of eternity in the midst of limited time impacts our thinking and rearranges our priorities. And a prophet is one whose experience of the transcendent is so real and strong that it cannot be denied, and whose experience of a transcendent God cannot be separated from our patterns of life on earth.