The Book of Jonah is an amazing story of God’s love. It shows the lengths God will go to bring a disobedient prophet back into line and the depths of God’s love for a pagan, wicked, and sinful nation—to reveal to them His love! This book should encourage us to see how much God loves us and tenderly seeks to bring us to Himself. It should stir our hearts to seek the lost as Christ came to do and sends us to do for Him!
THE GOD WHO SEEKS (1:1-2a) Our Lord God Almighty is such a God of Mercy and Grace! Out of the countless lives that have crossed the pages of time we find two small dots, blips on the radar screen of eternity. Seemingly insignificant to all but God. A great storm that swirled around that nameless boat somewhere in the Mediterranean eight centuries before Christ. By all counts it should have swamped that boat and sent the nameless mariners to the black depth of the sea to await judgment day.
Criswell said, “The mystery of God is seen in these thousands of years in which sin and death run riot. There is no village, no hamlet without its raging, and no human heart without its dark, black drop. There is no life without its tears and its sorrows. No home ultimately does not break up, and no family does not see the circle of the home dissolve in the depths of the grave. No life does not end in death. The pages of history, from the time of the first murder until this present hour, are written in blood, tears and death.” But this black night a light breaks forth.
Amazingly, these sinking sailors do not perish. They rather are miraculously rescued from harm by the Master of ocean and earth and skies. Of all things, sleeping in the dark, creaking hold is an evangelist. Shaken awake by the terrified captain, questioned by shouted words over the fury of the storm, he speaks. In Jonah 1:9 the disobedient rebel shows his heart. Asked to go east he turns west. Told to rescue inland Ninevah, he seeks the Sea route to the furthest western city known in his day – Tarshish in western Spain!
OTI-32 – Jonah (961120WE) – https://youtu.be/BsylvXCj7qg
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