When You Don’t Want to Give Second Chances
If your house is like mine, if you are expecting company, there is a good bet that by the time they arrive, the house is picked up, cleaned and smelling nice. If; however, someone were to simply “stop by”, they might get a more REAL look at your house. Some of us are more okay with that than others.
One thing that I deeply appreciate about Scripture is that it is filled with REAL stories. I mean that in the sense that the details are not cleaned up and dusted off and made to look pretty. They are what they are and we get the ugly details of real people struggling to follow a perfect God.
There are far too many examples of this in Scripture to be able to list, but this weekend we will look at one of them in a guy named Jonah. Jonah, a man chosen to do God’s work, but who chose to run from God. A man who preached God’s words, but hoped that nobody responded to them. Jonah had some bitterness issues.
I know that there is nobody among us who share Jonah’s issues (wink, wink) but let’s learn from him this weekend anyway. (:o)