[The Glory Unveiled]
Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. ( Jonah 1:15 )
The evangelist Jonah was sent on an evangelistic mission to proclaim the counsel of God to a nation that had drifted from the path of God. Jonah reasoned out the mission statement as given to him by God. And in his reasoning, he thought that there was no need for him to go on that mission because God was going to turn the heart of the people in the end and save them nonetheless. And to him that was almost illogical and empty stress. He expressed his furious displeasure at God in chapter 4. The point is this, even though Jonah was a mighty evangelist, very gifted of God with oratory grace to turn the heart of people with the word of God, he was not having love for the people he was sent to. He went to them out of compulsion and not out of love. Jonah had always clinged to himself. He was only concerned about himself. And so he was thrown into the sea to be carried away by the waves of the sea into his place of destiny. We must not toe the path of Jonah to understand that love is what the world needs in this time. Love is selfless, let us go all out to the hearts of the people around us wherever God leads us to preach the good news of God’s grace.
Prayer_Bead: Omnipotent Father, Omniscient Lord, thank you for the grace to be numbered among those who will carry the news of your love to others. Thank you for helping me to let go of myself.
#GNews: Unveiling the glory of God.