tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391906.post7513140363787528237..comments2023-10-25T02:18:43.690-07:00Comments on Contend Earnestly: Jonah, Pt. 6 - A Gracious CallingSeth McBeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08765679934165890595noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391906.post-61141623963179854682006-12-13T13:19:00.000-08:002006-12-13T13:19:00.000-08:00Andy, well said, and a good perspective/illustrati...Andy, well said, and a good perspective/illustration of Jonah's priorities. I think of what A.W. Tozer said in that we often get our approach to ministry backwards. We start a project and then ask God to bless it. He suggested that we seek the Lord's wisdom in prayer first and then once we are led to do something, we can proceed knowing that God will bless it.Justin Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09611923953052100285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391906.post-58929068177370210072006-12-12T19:44:00.000-08:002006-12-12T19:44:00.000-08:00Seth,
How did you change your header to read like...Seth,<br /><br />How did you change your header to read like it does with the image on it? It looks good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391906.post-48891009262039590922006-12-12T18:23:00.000-08:002006-12-12T18:23:00.000-08:00Thank you again for your great comments from Jonah...Thank you again for your great comments from Jonah. I certainly agree! I see in these few verses the need to keep readjusting my paradigm. I keep slipping into a view of my Christian life that puts my desires, my interests, my plans and agenda for God ahead of me. We are reminded in these verses of a different paradigm. God's call on Jonah had nothing at all to do with Jonah's interests, or personal desires, plans, or agendas. On a list of "1000 things I want to accomplish for Yahweh" Ninevites and the Asyrians would have been nowhere to be found on Jonah's list. God called Jonah to do His will, His plan, His agenda. I so often think, wrongly so, that God will call me to do what is on my personal list of desires for God. That may well be the case, but then again, He may well call me to do something that I in no way want to do, that I have no desire or interest in, and that I might even have a great personal aversion to....but it is His will, His agenda, and that is to be enough for me. No matter the call, no matter the duty, the people, the location, by His grace may I as well, "arise and go".<br /><br />andyandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534906502565537643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391906.post-42662163182730697242006-12-12T14:27:00.000-08:002006-12-12T14:27:00.000-08:00we see this same idea when God tells Jeremiah in J...we see this same idea when God tells Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:9, <br /><br />I will put my words in your mouth. <br /><br />We better hope that when we teach and preach that the Lord is putting His words in our mouths or we are babbling barbarians without a cause.Seth McBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08765679934165890595noreply@blogger.com