Gods Grace For Our Lives

We come into the world rebellious. You don’t have to teach your children how to rebel; just leave them alone! Because we are by nature rebellious people, they instinctively know how to rebel. We rebel because we act as if we don’t know what the will of God is. Yet, as it was to Jonah, the will of God is clearer than most of us want or are willing to admit.

Too many of us are searching around for the will of God as if it were some ever-illusive magical formula. And because we are unable discern what God’s will is, we are content to live in disobedience. We spend our time chasing after and hoping for a word from God. Unfortunately, what we fail to do is look into the Word of God. Like Jonah, if you would look to the Word of God, you would find the will of God. God’s will was clear because God’s word was clear. It was that way to Jonah. It is that way to us. Do you want to know the will of God? It is clear if you go into the Word of God. The will of God is clear. According to the Word of God, the will of God is for husbands to love their wives (Col. 3:19). The will of God is for wives to submit to their husbands (Col. 3:18). The will of God is for children to obey their parents (Col. 3:20). The will of God is that we abstain from sexual immorality (1 Thess. 4:3). It doesn’t get any clearer than that. The will of God is that you and I would be growing in the grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ (Col. 1:10). It is the will of God that you and I give thanks in all things (1 Thess. 5:18). As you can see, the will of God is clear if we would go to the Word of God to find it. So it was with Jonah; there was no misunderstanding of what God wanted Jonah to do. He heard the Word of God. But rebellion is not rooted in ignorance. Rebellion is rooted in rank disobedience. Jonah didn’t want to hear it. We don’t want to know the will of God, and so

Carter, Anthony. Running from Mercy: Jonah and the Surprising Story of God's Unstoppable Grace . B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.