What would I have done?

I recently had an uncomfortable feeling like I was going to have to move to another city.  I felt the overwhelming urging of my spirit that this is going to happen, and I also felt the indignation of not wanting to go.  It drove me to even screeching out loud "I'm not going!"  In that moment my mother looked at me and said "don't be like Jonah."  I stopped in my tracks because I did feel like I was running from a word that God gave me.  I was indeed pulling a Jonah. 

People give the characters in the Bible such a hard time for making bad decisions, but if we are honest, we are more like the Adam, Jonah, Moses, David, and the others of the Bible than we think. We make self righteous decisions; we try to fix problems our way instead of God's way; we say no to God's will for our lives.  Thank God that their stories are in the Bible to warn us when we are heading into some the their same mistakes. I was getting ready to run from the word of God over my life because I didn't like it. If it weren't for Jonah's horror story, I might have ended up in my own version of a big fish.  Life has a way of humbling us and reminding us that while we are all amazing, we are all still foolish wanderers in this world that sometimes miss the truth right in front of us.  It's not too shameful to be a fool sometimes because God can use our foolishness to inform others.  After all he uses the foolishness of preaching to bring people to salvation. 

Check out 1chorintians 1 in the Bible

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