I am Marben Bland, Pastor Of Greater Bethel AME Athens with a living the word moment.
The story of the prophet Jonah is a Biblical satire with an irony for our times.
Called by God to deliver his word to the wicket in Nineveh. Jonah instead runs away from his call landing on a ship filled angry sailors during a violent storm, then thrown overboard, where he is swallowed by a whale spending three days and nights in its belly.
For Jonah the irony and satire is this: despite his desperate attempt to run away from the call of God, Joana says the things that glorify God. Brining the people witnessing his retreat closer to God.
Bowing to the will of the Lord, Jonah goes to Nineveh. He says a single sentence “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown!” With that proclamation the wicket people of Nineveh were converted.
The instruction is clear in this wicket time God is calling. Despite our protestation His glory will reign, and like Jonah we will be used as his instrument. May the satire and the irony continue.
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