Jonah tells the story of the prophet who ran from obedience to God. There are many lessons here to help us understand how God does His work through man and how He deals with His servants when they rebel against Him.
Even in the Old Testament, much of the relationship between God and His people was based on love. God definitely loved them and they were expected to respond to Him in like kind. Yet, as today, when they began to waver from the Lord, God started getting their second-best. They gave Him the leftovers.
We must be ready to follow the words of the living God and to test the prophets by the words of God that have already been given.
Many families have problems with one member turning against another. This is the direct result of the coming of sin into the world.
These things describe a middle of the road believer: steps of a good man, delight of a good man, and fall of a good man.
