”“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it because their evil has come up before me.” Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the Lord’s presence. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the Lord’s presence.“
Jonah 1:2-3 CSB
https://bible.com/bible/1713/jon.1.CSB
This well known story is still amazing to me. God tells Jonah exactly what to do and Jonah understands but does the opposite. We don’t know exactly why, but we know that he comprehends and then does the inverse of what God asked of him.
I am shocked by this because I feel like so much of the time I am eager to “know what God wants me to do”. This is typically in the big decisions in life and I really want to do the right thing, so that I don’t screw it up again! Lord, help me to change my motives…I want to do the right thing so that you would be pleased!
But then, I think about the small things in life where “I know exactly what you want me to do”, yet I do exactly the opposite by choosing sin. God help me to view every choice I make in light of the story of Jonah! I need to continue to seek you on the big things in life and be surrendered to please you!!! AND all the little choices every day require my surrender!!!
God, thank you for helping me to see the flaw in my motivation. Let me be pleasing to you as I walk with you so you don’t have to throw me overboard, just to follow your plan!
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