Good Morning Friends,
“The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of
Amittai: ‘Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its
wickedness has come up before me.’ But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed
for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port.
After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the
LORD.” (Jonah 1:1-3)
Jonah did not like the assignment God gave
him. Preaching to the people of Nineveh was not something that he wanted to do.
They were enemies of God’s people. Jonah had no desire to see them repent. He
wanted to see them destroyed, not saved. And he certainly did not want to be
the instrument God used to prolong the life of Nineveh. He probably would have
been fine if he had been called to be the instrument of Nineveh’s destruction.
Because he did not want to do what God
assigned, Jonah ran away from it. In fact, the Bible says that Jonah didn’t
just run away from the assignment, he ran away from the Lord. Somehow he
thought he could hide from God. He thought he could go where God would never
find him. What a foolish thought!
There are times when God does give one of His
children an assignment that is not pleasant. He sometimes gives assignments that
we would rather not do. But, as Jonah will find out, it does not pay to try to
hide from the Lord. There is no place to hide from Him!
It would have been better for Jonah if he’d
trusted the Lord and been obedient to Him from the beginning.
It would be better for us if we would always
do that, too!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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