Jonah's claim to fame was literally going the in the opposite direction that God was calling him to. As a result, Jonah jeopardized the lives of the people he was travelling with. It was only when he put his life on the line that Jonah was able to spare those around him.
And he still had to go back and do what the Lord asked him to do.
Many of us are undercover Jonah's out here. We know God has called us to action, but we are doing the total opposite: nothing.
We may not be in the midst of a great storm with the potential to be killed and have others killed with us. But who knows how many lives are being adversely affected because of our inaction? Who knows how many souls will go unsaved because we did not open our mouths when God asked us to speak? Who knows how many lives will not be improved because we did not put the programs and visions in place that God gave to us?
When Jonah wised up, he saved a whole city from being destroyed. When we wise up as a body of Christ, we can save this world from destruction.
Verse of the Day: And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them... And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. Jonah 3:4, 5, 10
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