Jonah 1 "Running From God"

                The story of Jonah is a familiar one to most people. If you ever attended Sunday School or children’s Bible study, you were probably told about how Jonah was told by God to go and preach repentance to the Ninevites. The end of the story finds all the Ninevites repenting and turning to God even though Jonah tries to run from God’s call on his life. Take a peek at verse 16 though, and you see the Ninevites are not the only ones who find God. Though Jonah tries to run and hide, he finds that it is impossible to run so far that God cannot bring us back again. We don’t have to be perfect –though we should be striving for perfection—to be used by God. He takes us as we are.