A couple of days ago I wrote about a Bible study I'm a part of on the book of Jonah. I talked about seeing things as interruptions or changing our view for them to be divine interventions. Today, I want to talk about how we respond to those in our lives.
When God comes along and interrupts our plans, we have a choice in how we respond to that interruption. And how we respond will often line up with whether we see it as an interruption or a divine intervention.
Jonah saw God's job for him as an interruption. He didn't want to go to Ninevah and preach to them. He wanted to stay where he was in Jerusalem and keep doing what he was already doing. So, Jonah tried to run from God's new job for him - as far as he could in the other direction.
As we've been studying this, I've started to wonder what would have been different in Jonah's response if he had seen it as a divine intervention instead. What if Jonah had seen God's new job for him as an opportunity to participate in God's work? What would have looked different?
We are often faced with the same choice Jonah had. God has come along and interrupted our lives in some way and we have to decide what we're going to do.
Are we going to run from it?
Or are we going to step into it even if it doesn't seem like what we want in the moment?
We always have the choice. God will always leave us with the choice when He comes with an invitation to join Him in His purposes.
Has God interrupted your life recently?
How are you responding to it?
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