Jonah is my absolute favorite prophet. I've never heard his story told this way, but the fact that God tells him to go one way and he turns around and goes exactly the other way, and no matter what he does, he ends up precisely where God wants him to be, doing precisely what God wants him to do, with the results that he knew were going to happen all along... There is much richness in this story for us at many points in our lives.
Jonah is my absolute favorite prophet. I've never heard his story told this way, but the fact that God tells him to go one way and he turns around and goes exactly the other way, and no matter what he does, he ends up precisely where God wants him to be, doing precisely what God wants him to do, with the results that he knew were going to happen all along... There is much richness in this story for us at many points in our lives.
So much richness!
We never get to old to unlearn Sunday school stories.
Wow! That’s a new, and totally fine, challenging look at God and Jonah, and us. Thanks!