Happy Jesus Day:
Don’t be like Jonah when God calls you; His purpose will be for filled; it’s your choice of how you get there. It will be done in God’s way. Who was Jonah? He was proud, stubborn, disobedient, unfaithful, a grumber, and altogether a bad-tempered, cantankerous old curmudgeon-this was Jonah, whose name means “dove”! (Joshua 19:10-13) Jonah’s story is told in the short 48 verses; this is a powerful story about how Jonah tried to run from God. It is about a disobedient prophet who rejected his divine commission (calling), was cast overboard in a storm, swallowed up by a great fish, recused marvelously, and returned to his starting point. God called Jonah to go and warn the violent and godless Ninevites of their impending doom, all his pride in being a Hebrew. The book of Jonah is divided into four sections 1. Jonah’s Disobedience and Flight (1: 1-16) Jonah’s Prayer (2:1-11) (Jonah’s Obedience and the Ninevites’ Repentance (3:1-10) Jonah’s Anger and God’s Reproof (4:1-11). Read the book of Jonah to understand there are four chapters.
CIRCA 1997
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