Jonah’s Appeal from God

Let us muse on a last thought from Jonah 4 10-12 where we see an appeal from God. In this appeal Jonah sees in himself a refusal to pity. God told him he had more pity on a gourd than on 60,000 people that do not know their right hand from their left spiritually. Jonah’s stubborn response to God’s appeal is silence. Instead of wanting to be a help I believe Jonah in his own stubborn way picked up his staff and heads for the house. When he arrives at home the people saw the defining work of the whale’s gastric juices had left  on this prophet and they said, what in the world has happened to you Jonah? It was then Jonah began to tell his story of stubborn rebellion. He was such a living epistle to a nation that had lived a life of stubbornness toward a holy God. What has God asked you to do that you have not yet done? If you have not yet obeyed Him, keep an eye out there might be a whale ride in your future