A Fish Story

Did you ever have one of those days when you felt like it would have been better if you had just stayed in bed? Work has piled up, the car needs work, and you just want to go away and hide. That must have been what Jonah was going through.

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³But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction in order to get away from the LORD. He went down to the seacoast, to the port of Joppa, where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping that by going away to the west he could escape from the LORD.

God had told Jonah to go Nineveh and warn them of the destruction that was coming their way, but Jonah wasn’t in the mood to take that trip. He decided that he would go the opposite direction and maybe God wouldn’t know where he was. We all know what the result was – he ended up spending time in the belly of a great fish and still wound up in Nineveh.

How many times do we decide to trust in our own judgment instead of following what God has planned for us? We keep running to get away from what He wants us to do until we reach the end of our rope, and then realize that God is there, holding the rope so we won’t fall. By the mercy of God, we can run but we can’t hide. He keeps His eye on us so He can be there when we realize that we really don’t want to run away from home.

We serve an awesome God!!!!!!!!!!!!