Missionary God and the Prodigal Prophet: Running From God pt. 2

When I run from God, I lose.

4 The Lord hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up.

I lose my protection.

1 Corinthians 5:5 I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 

I lose my perspective.

I lose my perspective on my influence.

5 Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried to his god,

I lose my perspective on my responsibility.

and they threw the cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone below into the hold of the ship, lain down and fallen sound asleep.

6 So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, call on your god. Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”

I lose my perspective on my part in God’s mission.

7 Each man said to his mate, “Come, let us cast lots so we may learn on whose account this calamity has struck us.” So they cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. 8 Then they said to him, “Tell us, now! On whose account has this calamity struck us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”

9 He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land.”

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