Running from God

Monday January 23rd, Jonah 1: 1One day long ago, GOD's Word came to Jonah, Amittai's son: 2"Up on your feet and on your way to the big city of Nineveh! Preach to them. They're in a bad way and I can't ignore it any longer." 3But Jonah got up and went the other direction to Tarshish, running away from GOD. Nineveh is an ancient city near the present town of Mosul in Iraq. Jonah did not want to go there. He did not like the people in Nineveh and they most likely would not have liked him. Sometimes God leads us to places and to do things we don’t want to do. God had compassion for part of creation. Jonah could only see what he thought he saw and was not able to see the potential God could see. Sometimes we need to follow God’s leading in spite of our opinions.