Under Gods Command
Jeremiah 2.23-27 – How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not run after the Baals? See how you behaved in the valley, consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there, a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving-in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her. Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you say, ‘it’s no use! I love foreign gods and I must go after them’. “As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced-they, their kings and their officials, their priest and their prophets. They say to wood, you gave me birth. They have turned their backs to me and not their faces. Yet when they are in trouble, they say ‘Come and save us!”
The people are compared to animals who search for mates in mating season. Unrestrained they rush for power, money, alliances with foreign powers, and other gods. The idols did not seek the people; the people sought the idols and then ran wildly after them. Then they became so comfortable in their sin that they could not think of giving it up. Their only shame was in getting caught. It we desire something do much that we’ll do anything to get it, this is a sign that we are addicted to it and out of tune with God.
Under Gods command 