Messages

Does anyone like it when someone doesn’t receive the punishment we think they deserve? How about when we receive less than we deserve? We love that don’t we! What could our understanding of fairness and mercy be rooted in? Knowledge, rights, effort?

Most of the time we find ourselves telling God a lot about the problems we face. When there aren’t any problems, we don’t talk to him much, but then there are, we spend our time telling him about them. What if our prayer’s perspective was the problem? What is we reframed how we approach talking with God in the middle of the messiness? Jonah took that journey.

The closer we get to God the more we can believe that God’s invitations to use us are always going to be exciting, welcome and feel good. This can lead to risking the pleasure of our closeness with God, or thinking that we can ‘run from His presence’. But there is always more to the journey than we plan for.