“Ok, you need to turn right right
there.” Said my nagivator.
“But its three lanes over and
there’s traffic.” I said as we passed by the exit ramp.
“Then I guess you need to turn
around the first chance you get.”
Sometimes these times can be
stressful times, especially when it takes miles to get turned around without
getting turned around. But to continue on only makes the situation worse. Turning
off and trying to weave through town doesn’t seem to work well either. The
solution that works best is to turn around and pick up where we went wrong.
Life works that way, too. When
God convicts my heart to forsake something, I need to turn around and go back
to where I went wrong. If I try an alternate route, I just get lost, frustrated
and angry. If I continue on, I will just get farther and farther from God.
In Jonah, the king proclaimed a
time of praying, fasting and mourning for everyone – even the livestock.
Imagine the din rising from Ninevah. What a racket! The animals crying out for
something to satisfy their hunger and thirst reminds the people to cry out to
God to satisfy their needs. The king also told them to wear sackcloth and even
put it on the animals to further illustrate their hearts. He then reminded them
to not only mourn, but to repent – to turn around from their evil and violent
ways.
“And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the
decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor
flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and
beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn
every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.”
Jonah 3:7-8.
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