I thought I would share with you all, some of the interesting truths from a book I am reading by Priscilla Shirer called "Jonah, Navigating a Life Interrupted." You can’t escape life’s interruptions…they shock us and shake us and compel us to change. Yet what you see as an interruption may in reality be an invitation from God himself to a life much bigger than you ever imagined !! God’s plan IS a Divine intervention .…where our balking at God’s plan is an indication of the importance we place on our wants and makes it an interruption. We often feel like Jonah felt about God’s Plan!~~frustrated. The importance we place on our plans, often causes us to frown when the Lord sends new assignments our way.
Would it have made a difference if Jonah could have seen his life laid out in the 4 chapters of Jonah and if he could have seen that this interruption ( which he fled to Tarsus to avoid ) was really an invitation to participate in one of the more supernatural events in the Old Testament…Just that change in his viewing perspective would have made all the difference in his life ….as it does in ours !
It is easier to say that God and His plans are in a place of significance in our lives than to live like they are. The prophet, Jonah needed a fresh view of God and His plan …one he would get the hard way! May we take a page from Jonah’s life and rework our view early on. And may we come to realize that yielding to God is the best decision we can make. It is such a Traceable, Trustable Treasure.
Prov 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Psalm 81:13-14a “If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways, how quickly I would subdue their enemies ...
Psalm 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does.
