Sunday, May 13, 2012

May 13th 2012

When we run from God, how does He draw us back to Him?

Read Jonah 1, especially verses 4-5

Storms really get a bad rap sometimes, don’t they? Traditionally we tend to view storms as God’s way of punishing us or getting back at us from something we’ve done. There are even people out there who try to find a cause behind every major catastrophe in our world. They may say that God sent this tornado because of this sin in their state, or in their country.

What’s interesting is as you look at the story of Jonah; God isn’t using this storm to punish Jonah is He? This raises the question; what is the purpose of this storm? (Hint: If you don’t know the rest of the story of Jonah, read it.) God isn’t using the storm to punish or cast judgment on Jonah; instead God is using the storm to bring Jonah back into His will for his life. God uses the storm eventually to bring Jonah to Nineveh.

There are times in our lives when we will face storms, and sometimes (if not most of the time) these storms will be God’s way of bringing us back to Him. In our world we have this mentality of building our own empires (whether big or small); we pick ourselves up by our bootstraps. So it’s easy for us to forget that God is even a part of our lives. It’s in those moments when storms may come to remind us that God desires more from us than to have the most toys, but a deeper relationship with Him.

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