Today's Devotional: Half-hearted Obedience
Jonah spends the majority of his eponymous book complaining and running away from responsibility....
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You Can't Run Fast Enough - #6344
When you're running from God, you are a destabilizing force on everything and everyone around you, and God is pursuing you even to this moment today. It's a good thing isn't it that parents always catch their children? Because if they didn't, eventually you know those kids would run into disaster or death. Well, God is catching you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/you-can-t-run-fa...
Why God Sends the Storm - #6101
Could it be that the storm that's hit you lately - the storm that even threatens to break up your ship - is God's tool to drive you into His arms? Not because He's mad at you, but because He loves you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/why-god-sends-th...
Three days - a Christian perspective
Three days after he was killed, Jesus rose from the grave. This verse points out the parallel between Jesus' time in the grave and the prophet Jonah's ordeal inside the whale.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2012:40&version=NIV
Wickedness in the Bible - a Christian perspective
Jonah is told to go to Ninevah and tell them to repent of their wickedness. When confronted with their wickedness at the end of the book they turn to God.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah%201:1-2&version=NIV
The Hammer In God's Hands - #5800
The hammer that hits us in our life can either break us or build us. If we'll turn to God when we're getting hit, looking for His purposes and His message, that hammer can build us into something we've never been before.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-hammer-in-gods-hands-5800
Whale in the Bible - a Christian perspective
We read in the first chapter of Jonah that he was swallowed by a big fish after being thrown overboard. Traditionally, the fish is believed to have been a whale. Jonah lived inside of it for three days and nights.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah%201:17&version=NIV
Hebrew Jonah and the Big Fish
Hebrew: God tells Jonah to go to Nineveh & warn the people to repent. Jonah sails the other way. God sends a huge storm & Jonah is thrown into the sea. A big fish swallows him & spits him up back where he started. Jonah goes to Nineveh and they repent. Jonah is not happy and is angry with God.
http://bibleforchildren.org/PDFs/hebrew/Jonah%20and%20the%20Big%20Fish%20Hebrew.pdf
French Jonah and the Big Fish
French: God tells Jonah to go to Nineveh & warn the people to repent. Jonah sails the other way. God sends a huge storm & Jonah is thrown into the sea. A big fish swallows him & spits him up back where he started. Jonah goes to Nineveh and they repent. Jonah is not happy and is angry with God.
http://bibleforchildren.org/PDFs/french/Jonah%20and%20the%20Big%20Fish%20French.pdf
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Ultimate Mission Impossible - #4333
Now can you hear that Mission Impossible theme playing in the background? Jonah went all out trying to get away from the Lord -- he bought a ticket to what is Spain today, which basically was the farthest place on earth he could run to in his day. But it wasn't far enough to escape God. It never is.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/The-Ultimate-Mission-Impossibl...
Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Why God Sends the Storm - #4891
Could it be that the storm that's hit you lately - the storm that even threatens to break up your ship - is God's tool to drive you into His arms? Not because He's mad at you, but because He loves you - enough to send His Son, Jesus, to take all the punishment for all your sin. But you've been running from the man who died for you. But God loves you too much to lose you. He doesn't want you to keep running from His love until time suddenly runs out - forever. So He's sent this storm - something you can't control and you can't fix, so you'd finally realize how very much you need Him.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Why-God-Sends-the-Storm-4891
