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had a plain command from the Lord, and he knew it to be a command; but he felt that the commission given to him would not be pleasant and honoring to himself, and therefore he declined to comply with it.
What strange inconsistencies there often are even in good men!
There are devil’s providences as well as divine providences, and there are tempting providences as well as assisting providences, so learn to judge between the one and the other.
The Lord is never short of sheriff’s officers to arrest his fugitives,
Life is precious, and a man will give up everything else in order to save it.
They could not but believe in the God who had thus followed up his fugitive servant.
In the great things of life, and in the little things, God is ever present.
This prayer of Jonah is very remarkable because it is not a prayer at all in the sense in which we usually apply the word to petition and supplication. If you read the prayer through, you will see that it is almost all thanksgiving; and the best prayer in all the world is a prayer that is full of thankfulness.
Faith begins to tell what God has done before the great work is actually accomplished;
other fish that ever lived had a live man inside him singing praises unto God.
is a blessed thing to have the Bible in your mind and heart so that, wherever you may be, you do not need to turn to the Book because you have the Book inside you. Here is a man inside a fish with a Book inside of him; and it was the Book inside of him that brought him out from the fish again.
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him;”
There may be a great fish, but there is a great God as well. There may be a deep seas, but there is an almighty God to bring you up out of it.
God has only to speak, and even sea-monsters obey him.
However far you may have gone from all that is good, he who spoke to that great fish, and made it disgorge the prophet Jonah, can speak to you, and then you will give up your sins as the whale gave up Jonah. God grant that it may be so this very hour!
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His message was short and sharp, there was not a word of mercy in it. there was nothing to distract the attention of the hearers from the one point and the one subject;
He was the true child of Elijah, the prophet of fire.
Jonah, on the contrary, thought everything of God, and very little of men.
“When Christ sees of the travail of his soul, he is satisfied; but when Jonah saw of the travail of his soul, he was dissatisfied.”
character—we might never have known the story of his folly if he had not written it himself.
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if you preach God’s Word as he gives it to you, you have nothing to do with the consequences that come of it. God will justify his own truth;
Whenever you and I begin to try to manage God’s kingdom for him, we find the divine scepter too heavy for our little hands to hold;
We can’t manage aGods kingdom
under his little booth of boughs, he would not be hurt by the failing edifices.
The damps of the night fell on him, and the heat of the sun would soon wither up the branches. If, dear friends, like Jonah, you want to complain, you will soon have something to complain of. People who are resolved to fret, generally make for themselves causes for fretfulness.
It is well for us that, “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.” When a child is in a fever, and says a great many naughty things, his father puts it down to the sickness rather than to the child. So it was with God’s poor fainting servant Jonah.
