Jonah

I am remind of Jonah, the prophet who once was used to bring good news of reconciliation only to a man running scared of the truth known as Yahweh. In some ways I feel his anxiety and internal strife. No, I wasn't called to love the people that I hated the most. I was called to love the people who were making me hate them only because I really wanted to love them. Oh the irony. Yet, my selfish pride ran with that hate and I eventually started to run from God himself. Oh the tragic.

Seems like I'm still running. May the sovereignty of the God of the universe reign supreme. Draw me back.

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God,

did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

rather, he made himself nothing

by taking the very nature of a servant,

being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man, 

he humbled himself

be becoming obedient to death --

even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place

and gave him the name that is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus every knee show bow,

in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:5-11