"Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
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
Sometimes God asks us to do something and our first instinct is to run away or hide. Not that it works, of course, because there is no hiding from the Lord, but still we try. We don't want to do it... we're scared, or we have our own plans, or whatever it is. God's way though is always better, and listening to the Lord helps us to understand him in the future. Another ultra-important part is that God is leading us to happiness... no matter what he is asking us to do, or how much we're scared of it, it is always the way to happiness, because God doesn't lead us anywhere else.
Today, let's work on listening to the voice of the Lord and not running away from what he asks us to do. Let's stretch, rely on God for help, and do it anyway, so that God can continue to lead us where we need to go.
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