Jonah – Part I

Last Sunday’s message was about Jonah. I’ve read that book and have heard his story countless times. It was the first time though that I heard a Pastor say that this is not a story about a big fish and that it is a story of God’s Love. How God loves imperfect persons, and how God’s love is above our human love which was what Jonah embodied. Jonah would not want to preach to the people of Nineveh because he knows that they might repent and turn from their ways. Jonah does not want these people to be saved! And Jonah went through a lot just to avoid his mission, he even thought that he could run away from God but obviously he could not. So if you are studying at a medical assistant school to go abroad and to earn decent money, and you suddenly hear God call you to go elsewhere – what would you do? If we are being called by God to go to Nineveh and we selfishly go to our personal “Tarshish” – God will bring in the storm and he will calibrate it to go as strong as it needs for us to realize that we need to follow his leading.