John SD
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Shortgrass, it sounds like you just had a smidgen of writer's block today is all. :wink: But you are still ready, willing, and able to bring us the Sunday message in spite of that. Quite unlike Jonah was.
Last night at church the OT reading was from Jonah 3:1-5,10. This passage doesn't include the great lengths that Jonah went to in an attempt to avoid God's command to go preach at Nineveh. Or his sulking and griping to God in Chap 4 afterward.
God wants Jonah to go to Nineveh. So what does Jonah do but get himself on a boat headed to Tarshish instead. You know the rest of the story. God sends a storm that threatens the ship until the crew finally throws Jonah overboard. The big fish comes along and swallows Jonah. Jonah spends 3 days in the belly of the fish until he has a change of heart and the fish peuks him up on shore.
Now Jonah is finally ready to do the job God had lined up for him to do in the first place. But what a rigamarole to get there. Do some of us act like Jonah at times? I pray we are never so ornery and obstinate that God has to put us in the belly of a big fish before we see the big picture!
Jigs, I sympathize on the propane deal. I ran out once early one Sunday morning when it was -20. I hated to call the guy but I did about 5:30 AM. He wasn't planning to go out that day but went out and plugged his truck in. I had heat back on by 9. That is great service!!!
Last night at church the OT reading was from Jonah 3:1-5,10. This passage doesn't include the great lengths that Jonah went to in an attempt to avoid God's command to go preach at Nineveh. Or his sulking and griping to God in Chap 4 afterward.
God wants Jonah to go to Nineveh. So what does Jonah do but get himself on a boat headed to Tarshish instead. You know the rest of the story. God sends a storm that threatens the ship until the crew finally throws Jonah overboard. The big fish comes along and swallows Jonah. Jonah spends 3 days in the belly of the fish until he has a change of heart and the fish peuks him up on shore.
Now Jonah is finally ready to do the job God had lined up for him to do in the first place. But what a rigamarole to get there. Do some of us act like Jonah at times? I pray we are never so ornery and obstinate that God has to put us in the belly of a big fish before we see the big picture!
Jigs, I sympathize on the propane deal. I ran out once early one Sunday morning when it was -20. I hated to call the guy but I did about 5:30 AM. He wasn't planning to go out that day but went out and plugged his truck in. I had heat back on by 9. That is great service!!!
