Today is Monday, September 30, 2019 and here is your Daily Devo.
If you are a Christian, whether you have recently come to the faith or have walked with Jesus for years, you will likely encounter something sooner or later in God’s Word that will cause you to run rather than obey. You may be able to point to many of God’s commands that you are wholeheartedly willing to obey, but God’s ways are not our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. Eventually, we too will come face to face with a command of God that we will find objectionable and unfair. Like Jonah, we don’t disobey God without reason; we will likely have lots of excuses and justifications for why we can’t obey. But disobedience with good reasons is still disobedience.
Because God’s love for you is like God’s love for Jonah, He will not leave you in your disobedience. Like an Olympian skillfully hurling a javelin at his target, God hurled a great storm upon Jonah, not out of punishment but out of loving pursuit. When it comes to disobedience and our running away from God’s presence, the biggest thing we ought to fear is not a great storm but a calm and peaceful sea. As long as there is a storm raging to bring us back to obedience and back to God’s presence, we can have hope even in the midst of our rebellion. The discipline of Jonah continued and would not let up until he confessed and committed to obey the difficult command of God.
Think about this: Jonah believed that he had good reasons for his disobedience. When have you been tempted to believe that your disobedience and sin was justified? What does this story teach us about God’s response to His people when they sin? Why should God’s character displayed here comfort us?
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