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| Jonah — Part 1 |
| “Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord” (Jonah 1:3). |
| When our children were very small they created a novel way to hide from people when they wanted to be left alone or wanted their own way. They would close their eyes and assume that anyone they couldn’t see couldn’t see them as well. |
| Jonah had a more gown-up approach to hiding, but it wasn’t any more effective than our daughters’ approach. When God asked him to go to Nineveh and deliver a message, he decided to run in the opposite direction. But he soon found out that there is no place where God couldn’t find him. |
| Maybe one of my readers is trying to hide from God. You are a true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, but you don’t want to go in the direction that He is leading, or do the things you know He wants you to do. But there is nothing to fear. He is always with you, and eventually Jonah, in the belly of the great fish, came to this realization, and could say, “I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and He heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and Thou heardest my voice” (Jonah 2:2). |
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