One of my favorite prophet in the bible is Jonah..

Why? Well, I see a lot of my self through him… stubborn, vengeful and someone brave enough to disobey on God. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t admire his character traits but like I said I am more like him.

When I had a chance to be a speaker in our church’s prayer meeting the inspirational message assigned to me was the passage Jonah 1:1-17 and I knew that it was no accident that my first inspirational message to our congregation is about a prophet I know so well.

Jonah is a prophet who received a specific call from God “to go to Nineveh and warn them of the consequences for their wickedness” It was a simple order from God but instead of obeying God, Jonah took an easy road by running away from God, he tried so hard to hide from God by sailing in a ship but no one can hid himself from God. A storm came suddenly while Jonah was on the ship, it was so strong that the ship was almost destroyed and when the sailors knew about God’s fury against Jonah, they threw Jonah into the water. But indeed, God is a good God that He sent a big fish to rescue Jonah.

Like Jonah, I am such a stubborn Christian and I often runaway when things don’t go the way I want them to be. I also tend to disobey God a lot and my disobedience often brought me painful heartaches. Disobedience has certain consequences and there is no way we can hide from God. I keep on praying that my stubbornness will not manifest so much on me and that I’ll learn to surrender everything to God.

Memory Verse:
“Where could I go to escape from You? Where could I get away from Your presence?” Psalm 139:7

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