{"id":3487,"date":"2021-09-16T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glorycbcdevotion.home.blog\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2024-10-14T22:05:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:05:45","slug":"2021-9-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/devotion-2019_2021\/2021-9-16\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-9-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jonah 1:1-17; 2:1-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who is good? Who is bad?<br>Jonah thought God was kidding and he wanted to quit.<br>Deserter? Patriot?<br>Jonah wanted to flee. Flee from love. Flee from care.<br>What is right? What is wrong?<br>Jonah thought God was kidding and he wanted to quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set sail to Tarshish. He said \u2018I am finished\u2019. He would rather die than love his enemies.<br>Forgiving is lovely until you have someone to forgive.<br>God chased him with the wind. The ship sinks and he still sleeps. He said, \u2018God take me. I am ready to quit.\u2019&nbsp; One, two and three, sailors tossed him into the big sea. &nbsp;Jonah was ready to quit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it God\u2019s punishment? &nbsp;Is it God\u2019s salvation?<br>Why would God rescue me?&nbsp; Why would God not put me to death?<br>A runaway child who wanted to play hide and seek.&nbsp;<br>A prophet? A prisoner of hate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Engulfed by big fish? Engulfed by Big God?<br>He cooled his head. &nbsp;He made a vow, He would make good.&nbsp; Salvation comes from the Lord.<br>God straightens out a fleeing prophet.\u3000\u3000\u3000&#8212; Alan Yam<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah 1:1-17; 2:1-10 Who is good? Who is bad?Jonah thou [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion-2019_2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}