True Worship
We are faced to examine ourselves by reading this brief passage of scripture. This story begins with Jonah receiving a command from the Lord followed by Jonah's immediate response to run away, to disobey God.
By the end of the chapter, Jonah claims to fear the Lord. Any rationale person - believer or unbeliever - would immediately respond with incredulity. "How can Jonah claim to fear God, yet deliberately disobey him?"
Yet, don't we all do this? Those of us who claim to follow the one true God, Jesus Christ, often laud him with our singing and church-going and other religious activities, yet we brazenly disobey him. And often.
Jonah is not just a story about a man who is hardened against another race of people and is willing to disobey God. Jonah is a story about every person in the world. All of us have the capacity to say one thing and do another.
Our goal is to reconcile this hypocrisy. We are to draw together our mind and words that praise God with our hands that often disobey him. This is what true worship is, after all.
Created about 1 year ago
