1 Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord (Jonah 1:1-3).
Jonah didn’t want to go to Nineveh. Jonah probably had several very good reasons, from his perspective, to desire not to go to Nineveh. The Ninevehites were not nice people so Jonah feared them. Also, it is possible that Jonah simply didn’t like the people of Nineveh. So, instead of obeying God, Jonah fled. This was not the greatest decision Jonah could have made. And God would later make this poor decision on Jonah’s part abundantly clear to Jonah. The bottom line is that if God says go or do, it is unwise to disobey, lest we find ourselves swallowed up in the body of a whale. God’s desires and actions will not be thwarted.
Jonah didn’t want to go to Nineveh. Jonah probably had several very good reasons, from his perspective, to desire not to go to Nineveh. The Ninevehites were not nice people so Jonah feared them. Also, it is possible that Jonah simply didn’t like the people of Nineveh. So, instead of obeying God, Jonah fled. This was not the greatest decision Jonah could have made. And God would later make this poor decision on Jonah’s part abundantly clear to Jonah. The bottom line is that if God says go or do, it is unwise to disobey, lest we find ourselves swallowed up in the body of a whale. God’s desires and actions will not be thwarted.
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