Walking on The Right Path

O. T. #2166 " Walking on The Right Path"

April 8, 2022

Jonah 3-Part 2

LET IT GLOW

After having a near death experience, Jonah was ready to surrender to do God's will. A second commission was given to the prophet, the same message-go to Nineveh and preach what God told him.

Jonah had a repentant, renewed, reconciled, heart toward God. He returned to the duties that he had neglected. When God forgives, He forgets, and restores us. Free grace was given to Jonah and now he is to tell of  the free grace availability to the idolatrous people of Nineveh.

So Jonah went to Nineveh, some 500 miles from Joppa. Don't know if he took a caravan, a camel, or walked, but Jonah obeyed the Lord. (verse 3a)

Nineveh was in Assyrian territory, its capital. this metropolitan city was about 60 miles in circumference and would require 3 days to just get around it. Stopping to preach would take longer. The 175,000 people had pagan idols and beliefs. Yet, God's love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness was extended to them, not for the Jews alone.

So it is with you and me. If you have strayed away from God or ran from His will, like Jonah, He is still the God of second chances. Ask forgiveness and God will forgive you. Return to do what He last told you to do. It is never too late as long as you are breathing, beloved.

 

LET IT GROW

Jonah wasted time running away, sailing on a ship, and riding in the belly of a whale for 3 days and nights. Finally, the prophet go back on the right path of God's will. Have you strayed off that path for you?

What was Jonah's message once he arrived in Nineveh?

Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. (verse 4b)

The wicked people in Nineveh would be judged for their sins and they had a 40 day window to fix the problem. The God who created everything had every right to destroy them. However, He was graciously giving them a chance to repent and come clean.  

Jesus waits at the door for you to open your door of your heart to Him.

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.  (Romans 10:13)

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (verse 9)

Jesus said in John 11:25-26, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in Me will never die.

Friend, have you called upon Jesus to save you from the penalty of your sins? Do you believe in your heart that Jesus is God's Son, lived a perfect life, hung upon the cross, rose from the grave, and lives forevermore? Today is not too late, but when you die, it is too late.

 

LET IT GO

Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

He is the One who loved us so much that He died for us, in the form of the man, Jesus Christ.

Praise and glory to Jesus, our hope beyond the grave!