Week 4. Jonah

The book of Jonah brings all of us under the conviction that we love the things that God has given us (homes, cars, hobbies, health, friends, etc.) more than the great city we live in. There are spiritually blind people whom we pass every day and ignore because our minds are consumed with ourselves. The question that Jonah leaves us to ponder is who would we be if God simply left us to ourselves and stopped running after us? If Jesus had not come, died, and risen after 3 days, where would we be? Lost and alone. If we don’t make this personal, we will miss the point of Jonah: that we are Jonah.