Foolish Flight
“So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land. ”” Jonah 1:9 NKJV http://bible.com/114/jon.1.9.nkjv An induction into the company of dependable servants of the Lord is the greatest of all achievements on earth. It enables the privilege of prosecuting a purpose-driven life, against any prevailing conflict of interest. Jonah's conflict of interest had imagined the possibility of wasting the privilege of living to pursue the absolute will of God. He had embarked on a foolish flight away from the dry land into the sea, in absolute disobedience to the commandment of the Lord. Obviously, Jonah's flight exposed the challenge of an empty religious fear. True fear obeys the commandments of the Lord, without minding the consequences; but a flight from the commandments of the Lord is an invitation to storms in life. By a forceful conviction however, Jonah finally acknowledged that the God of heaven made both the se...