This morning my reading regime took me through the Book of Jonah.
You know the story...Jonah plans not to be obedient to God. There is no way he is going to Nineveh to represent God to that heathen population. He heads off in the opposite direction only to cause great strife and possible death for the sailors. He ends up overboard and swallowed by a huge fish.
Inside the fish, he is repentant and prays to God. In part of his prayer he says this:
Chapter 2 Verse 8 "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs"
If we cling to idols (all of which are worthless by their very nature) then we abandon any hope for mercy from God.
We are deceiving ourselves with something that in the end is nothing.
TFTD: Be careful that "things" might take the place of God.
Have a great day,
Peter Clark.
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