The Ninevites Didn't Slap People With Fish??

So while I am writing this blog I am listening to The Afters' "Never going back to okay" which is like my theme song for what God has been trying to get me to start doing and the theme song for today.

Jacob Milea spoke the last 3 days for class and today we talked about Sampson, who had a call on his life but never included God in it until he had no where else to go. Then, we talked about Jonah, who we all know ran away from what God was calling him to do, which was tell the gospel to the Ninevites. Now, you can go your whole life hearing this story and writing Jonah off as a punk who just wanted to do his own thing and the people who watched Veggie Tales think the Ninevites slapped people with fish. Though it is true Jonah was being a selfish punk, we don't realize IF anyone had the right to complain it was Jonah. I won't go into the details of what Jacob explained to us how the Ninevites treated the people they attacked but let's just say that if I city knew the Ninevites were going to attack them, they would just commit mass suicide. The Ninevites were a monstrocity, they did really awful things it would be better to die peacefully than try to defend against the Ninevites.

And how big is that?? We know that Jesus endured torture and ridicule and died so that we could be saved, which is so awesome we can't even understand the hugeness of that fact. And God, back in Old Testement times, decided that these wicked people would get wiped out, but IF.... IF they turned to Him they could be saved. AND THEY DID!! Like how amazing is that?!?! There are several kings in the bible that God speaks through a prophet and says "You are totally going against me, I'm going tear down everything in your life and you are gonna die!" And these kings are like "Uh, i hate you!" (But to me whe I read it sometimes it sounds like there response is "Yeah, lets see you try.")

But anyway, these Ninevites, these evil vile people you want to see dead, God says "I'm gonna destroy them, but if they turn their hearts to me I will receive them and I want them to be part of my Kingdom." How amazing! God is a much bigger person than I am, definitely. If I watched someone do the things they did I would want to puke my guts out and die. I wouldn't be able to even handle seeing it, let alone loving them so much to go to them and give them the opportunity for life for eternity.

So today God reminded me how much I live for my comfort and how I believe things should be. Thank you God for showing me the parts of me you want to chisel off of me to show more of you. And my perspective of Jonah has changed, even though he still should've been obedient, as should I.

So what are fighting God on?

What are you running away from that God wants you to do?