KNOWING AND DOING THE WILL, OF GOD, ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. WHERE DO YOU STAND?
It is truly amazing how much we think we know (without study or being open to the Word) and yet we are unaware that God does not change His mind, when it comes to getting His children to come to Him but will rearrange the application to your circumstances and situations to fit His outcome (Read Jonah 1:1-14). For those who have problem with the story of Jonah, please take the limits (you have placed) off of the One who is limitless and know that with Him all things are possible. The sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one’s own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do what we “feel” is right or good is the issue causing us to desire the conformity to what one considers to be correct, right, or morally good, but not adhere to the Word. After running from God, like Jonah, most will get it. There is no place to run nor hide when YHWH, God has targeted you for a specific work He has planned for you.
So, stop complaining, running, trying to hide, or put your responsibility off on someone else, do like Jonah, ask to be thrown overboard. Because sometimes it requires only you and God to fix what is broken in your life; do not need to include a whole lot of people. If you are unsure of what to do, while in belly of your fish (dilemma) pray to God, through Jesus, that He will answer you from whatever depth. Ask Him to listen to you, everything seems to be taking its toll on your mind, body, heart, and soul. Repent for being contrary to His Word, Will, and Way and turn your face toward His Holy Temple, seeking the guidance you need. Because when you think you cannot go on, you want to give up YAH, through Yashuah, will bring you up from the darkest pit, with His Son, so bright it will destroy all signs of darkness and decay.
I would like to say, that for those who cling to their own understanding and abilities and have chosen to turn away from God’s love for them will remain in the belly of the fish. But for those who choose to cry out to the LORD, He will command the fish (trial, troubles, tribulations, situations, and circumstance) to leave us through your rejection to be a part of the sin.
Let me tell you how good God is and how He long for us to be a part of His kingdom and service. After all the running Jonah (many of us) did God still used him; God never give up on man; we give up on God.
17 Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 2 1 [a]From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. 2 He said:
“In my distress I called to the Lord,
and he answered me.
From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.
3 You hurled me into the depths,
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers
swept over me.
4 I said, ‘I have been banished
from your sight;
yet I will look again
toward your holy temple.’
5 The engulfing waters threatened me,[b]
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.
6 To the roots of the mountains I sank down;
the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, Lord my God,
brought my life up from the pit.
7 “When my life was ebbing away,
I remembered you, Lord,
and my prayer rose to you,
to your holy temple.
8 “Those who cling to worthless idols
turn away from God’s love for them.
9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise,
will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the Lord.’”
10 And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.