April 30, 2017

We do ask him if he's hungry and humbles. You come to your text. We want to we want to Feast on you or you're pleased. You really are please just people come to your word and listen to it. We asked for just humility to learn from its shape us every single person in this room needs something different today.

We all need the same thing, but we needed in different ways and so guy would you would you choose to the through the spirit and through this text to our songs for friendships or a greeting to her hanging out. Just at to minister to each and every one of our hearts of all things. I pray that people would leave this place feeling Freer than they came in because they've gotten to see more of who you are and pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Hope you're able would you please stand for the reading of God's word?

I'm going to read from Jonah chapter 1 verse 1 through verse 6. Now the word of the Lord. Came to Jonah the son of amortizing arise go to Nineveh that great City and call out against it for their evil has come up before me. But Jonah Rose to flee to tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joplin on the ship going to tarshis show. He paid the fair and went down into it to go with them to tarshish away from the presence of the Lord. But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea and there was a mighty Tempest on the sea so that the shift threaten to break up then the Mariners were afraid and he's cried out to his God and I heard the cargo that was in the ship into the sea the light in it for them. But Jonah and gone down into the inner part of the ship and laid down and was fast asleep. So the captain came and said them what you mean you sweeper arise call out to your guy. Perhaps the God will give us thought to us that we may not perish. Feel free to grab a sea.

The try to give a little bit of a summary of verses 1 through 3 where John is fleeing from the presence of the Lord he knows better cuz he knows that God has never distant don't know if you remember that Bette Midler song From a Distance to a tax. That is just a beautiful tax. If you feel like God doesn't see you or notice you or care about you or is concerned with you. I just want to read this text for another few statements to hear it. And then we're going to talk about how God is present Psalm 139. Verse 1 through 16 up on the screen just a glorious beautiful picture of God's incredible presents with us. Psalm 139 says this Oh Lord. You've searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I Rise up you just turned my thoughts from afar you search out my path in my line down in her acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue behold. Oh Lord, you know it all together. You have me in behind and before and lay your hand upon me such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your spirit or where shall I flee from your presence? If I send to Heaven you are there if I make my bed, and she all you were there. I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the other most parts of the sea. Even there. Your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall hold.

If I say surely the darkness shall cover me in the light about me be is night. Even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is bright as the day for darkness is as white with you. Yeah, I just love this next section each and every single one of you every single one of us is significant in matters for you formed my inward Parts. You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made if we spent more time dwelling on that looking in the mirror and seeing that instead of maybe what we see when I be great for body image sermon this hour talking about the boy. That's a good one. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful. Are your Works? My soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret intricately woven in the depths of the earth your I saw my unformed substance in your book were written every one of them the days that were formed for me. When is yet? There was none of them.

Gino's Bistro, so what's he doing? Why is he wouldn't mean he's fleeing from the presence of the Lord. I meant he was trying to ignore that truth. He's trying to get away from God, but God is Not distant. And I love that Jonah's attempt to get away from God doesn't work. God intervenes. Why the questions you might ask in the midst of Jonas disobedience is why doesn't it work? Because it never will God will never let his kids run away not good news. He says I don't know. I'm not going to let you just go. I'm going to intervene into your life. You cannot Escape me because I'm not distant, but I'm also not in different God is Not distant or indifferent from us. I love that Jonah's Disobedience. And I want you here though. The word of the Lord came to Johnny said I want you to go and do something and his disobedience is met with divine intervention.

And while Jonah in this story, if you know the story he throws this is when we're going to look at next week. I gets tossed over the shed to get swallowed up by a fish. He gets vomited back on to go back again to Nineveh his whole scene of a in in chapter 4. Keep trying to teach is full of what I would call God severe Mercies in Jonah's life. Severe acts of Mercy to try to get Jonah to wake up.

All of these are from a God who designed it for his good. God wouldn't let Jonah go and I love this Jonah's Disobedience doesn't determine God's pursuit of Jonah.

Jonas diso Jonah is disobedient to God and your God love is not determined by Jonas Disobedience. Oral-B that it doesn't it doesn't change God's Pursuit just like it doesn't our Disobedience does not determine God's love for us a man. And that good. You run from God. He's not distant you run from God. He's not in different. He pursues sometimes it feels like he's crawling storms at us to get us to respond. Sometimes. He leads us more with sweetness and carrots. No matter how hard or how far we run. We cannot outrun God's grace that some of what we learned just in these beginning verses this positively that positively God is here with us very much here with us with all of his heart Even in our disobedience.

So what's that mean is we look at a text like this if you're a follower of Christ, there is no wrath of God left for you. There's no right. This is not display of God's Wrath towards Jonah. I think often times we mistakenly think there is wrath remaining. There is Vengeance remaining for those who come to saving faith in Christ. Who said I'm throwing up my lot with Christ I come before Christ in my Disobedience and I asked for Christ to cover me. There is no wrath left for you. So no matter what you were going through right now is a follower price. It is not God's Wrath and judgement. It might be his fatherly discipline. It might be his correction. It might be his gracious pursuit of you that still feel hard but it is not full of Wrath is not full of villainy. It's not it's not full of Distinction for you. It's just fatherly love. It's discipline Direction and there's no rap for you. May God only ever use the absolute minimum necessary to get you where is going to be best for you. See what the contrast of this with with parents. I've never done this to my kids, but I hear other parents have you'll discipline them for something then you add just a little bit extra just to kind of make you feel good. You twist the knife just a little bit a little bit more than is necessary cuz you're peeved right? That's a Christian swear word.

He always like your kid does something that so you could you get your angry or frustrated. So and you want to come you hopefully right in your best moment. You want to correct them and grow them but you're also just angry and you want him to feel your anger your frustration. God has no interest in doing that. He dumped on Christ to all he has left for us as we run from him because it's his intervention to get us to respond. There's no wrath left for those in Christ just fatherly discipline Direction. God is favorably disposed towards you even in your Disobedience. That's what we learn from John are the whole story of Jonah is God's favorable disposition towards Jonah to try to get Jonah to come back to Grace. Think about how incredible this just think about this in your life when discipline comes it's still totally from a good and gracious father who is for us so much. So he gave his son Jesus for ultimate Act of disobedience.

So let me know maybe give you a summary of why it why did God send this one? I might say it like this God sent the wind and the storm to turn Jonah back to himself. This is not a storm of divine retribution, but fatherly love. Not condemnation but intervention. And your life maybe God's doing that? Maybe there's some things that the feel pretty heavy pretty lady. Maybe instead of God judging you. Maybe he's like a dad saying I'm trying to get you to come back.

Long with this received but the Lord hurled in first floor, but the Lord hurled a great when hurricane hurricane force winds up on the suitors this massive massive storm that comes the ship it threatens to break up things. As I was looking at the power of God of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe one of my favorite series and one of my favorite books in the series. There's this scene where where there's these mr. And mrs. Beaver and they're talking to Lucy one of the girls and and they're talking about as land. That's great. Like you supposed to be like this Christ figure it and she's like you're going to meet this one and she's kind of freaked out and she's like, so there's a straight line.

Yeah, you know that question if you know the stories and a greaser is he safe?

But he's good.

The God Who can Hurley hurricane at you? It's good. One of the things that we can get from this is God is not safe, but he is good. I think we'll put a slide up for this is like not safe. But here's the benefit of this the fact that God can heal a hurricane here. So that means he's able to help he has the capacity to intervene in the midst of your storm weather there because of your Disobedience or just because we're in a busted World whatever it is because he's able to do this to bring a storm he's able to help but because he's good. Guess what he's willing to help it so we get to put those two together and what it means is that I can trust him. I can trust if I can I can trust that The God Who is Sovereign over all things is also the God who is kind and good in for me and it's not letting me run so I can trust him and I would I would argue I would say that I think that is one of the underlying themes in the story of Jonah. It's a question of trust.

When you don't have certainty when you don't know the answer when you maybe disagree with what God's calling you to a directing you to we have it in the first couple verses Harris. It's not the word of the Lord came to John instead of amortizing a ride. Go to Nineveh that great City and call out against it. I want you to go in intervene. I want to save the city and I'm sending you that's a command from God to Jonah Jonah Disobedience disobeys and run scene addiction, but really fun of Miley what he was saying is I don't trust you.

I don't trust you. I don't trust that. Your command is right. I don't trust that your plan is right. I don't know how this is going to end God, but I'm not trusting you enough to follow you. Under under Jonah's disobedience. Is this question of trust Jonah. Do you trust me enough to do what I tell you? Jonah do you trust me enough to know that? I'm right even when you think I'm wrong? Jonah do you trust that my ways are always right, but they're always best.

And isn't that the overarching theme of our faith? Trust you might say faith or believe but is in the question of trust. Like the key question that we might have is will I trust him?

when things sound hard when things are uncertain When Storms are hitting when questions don't have answers will I trust him? When you ask me to do things that I disagree with and sound difficult or confusing will I still go or will I run the other direction?

Better but one of my favorite parenting books really cuz it's about shaping us as parents and not about trying to get our kids to be more loyal and obedient is a book called The Cure and parents in and I love this line from it. It says God's primary goal is earning my trust so he can love me and increasingly mature me, correct my behavior and free my life down the book. It extends. If that's true. Then why the great gifts we can give your kids to help them trust us so we can do the same. I've been staring at this for quite a while so we can love me and increasingly mature me now whenever I see something like Gods primary goal, I struggle with that a little bit. So if I could modify it like one of God's primary goal, perhaps as primary goal, but I'm not sure because God really big and I'm really small but I could say that I think it might be as primary go breakfast at like that is to get me to trust So so that he can grow me so that he can direct me so that he can mold me that he can shape me. I was like that sounds really nice. But I start seeing is it biblical is that biblical is the idea that God really wants me to trust him so he can do those things and I started thinking about how the fall actually happen. If you go to the very beginning of your Bible so I can see his creation and then fall and you see God make this beautiful paradise. Where is dwelling with his people deforms them? He's he's communion with Amy says you can Feast of any tree you get to hang out here. I've given you this for your food, but there's this one tree. The tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil don't eat of that tree because on the day you eat of it. You shall surely die. If you know the story what happens is the evil in Satan comes out to him and since it was he deal keep plants questions of distrust. He says are you sure that's what's going to happen. Are you really sure we really would Satan the saying are you sure God can be trusted. I mean look at the tree. Look how good it looks look how delicious it will be enjoyable to be in the moment before they took of that tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil that a question. Am I going to trust God or not? Even though that tree looks really good God's words got to be better even though it may not sound like it right now. It's a look at his lack of trust is what resulted in his flame. A ride go. No, I don't trust you God go to the city called like intervene. No God you got this one wrong, and it ends up in the Disobedience and ends up in the storms of his life take it always goes back to trust so I want to spend a little time on packing. Custom trust. How do we have trust in the storms of uncertainty? What did it because of our Disobedience or just being in a broken world? I love this excerpt from Brennan Manning in his book ruthless trustee says his when the brilliant ethicist John Kavanagh went to work for 3 months at the house of the dying in Calcutta. He was seeking a clear answer as to how best spend the rest of his life. On the first morning there. He met Mother Teresa. She asked and what can I do for you Kevin? I asked her to pray for him. She responds. What do you want me to to pray for you voice the requested yet born thousands of miles from the United States pray that I have Clarity. She said firmly. No, I will not do that.

when you asked her why she said Clarity is the last thing you were clinging to and must let go of When Cavanaugh commented that she always seem to have the clarity he longed for she laughs as his Mother Teresa last and says, I have never had Clarity what I have always had his trust. So I'll pray that you trust God and that great.

Stuff is hitting confusion Dives in an answer and I'll be alright as soon though you want. But if you trust me you will.

My friend Jim Cofield is on and he says this and in light of this x-ray says too often are quest for clarity or certainty is a subtle strategy for us to be in charge. We like being in control. The Gospel of Jesus Christ has been and ever shall be an invitation to trust we are reminded that the kingdom of God is not made up of those who figured out all of life nor of those who have results haunting questions in her life nor of those who have recovered from all their wounds. No more of those who are completely certain about matters to fine. But rather of those who trust the love the father has for us in Christ. We are like children trust in a loving and good parent who seeks our very best

Sudan wanted for Jonah. It's what he wanted for the ninevites if I said arise go. The question will you trust it's why he calls us why you directs us? That's why he speaks to us. That's why he gets his word to us since will you trust me?

Trust gets to be this anger and any storm. It doesn't matter. What causes the storms in your life for Jonah his slowness to obey that could be true for us. I could be just things are broken. Here's the one of my favorite text to get to service this anchor in the midst of our inserting question, Isaiah 26 verses 3 and 4. We see this will put this up on up on the screen. You keep him. In perfect. Peace whose mind is stayed on you. Because he trusts you. That great you keep him in perfect. Peace. That sounds awesome. Guzman not not when there's not storms now when there's not friction Islanders not struggles now when there's not worried the one whose mind is stayed on you because he trust in you trust in the Lord forever for the Lord. God is an everlasting Rock. If Jonah would have believed in the character of God when she quotes later on in this book God is gracious and merciful. He's over the sea the land. He's everything is functional dive into his heart the character of God and then even look at the consistent acts of God's Divine gracious intervention in his life those two truth of God's character and God's historical activities always come through always do what is right. He probably would have gone. And I think it's true for us if what if in the mission whatever is hitting us. Whatever it is. It's taking us away from obedience to God if we would say here's the very character of God was never said a harsh or or an untrue or who is who is never acted outside of that which is holy and good and right and beautiful and he's giving up his son for me is the ultimate expression of his intervention. I could trust him. I can follow where he goes God's character and his constant acid rates are like bulwarks or buttresses on her life that no matter what storms hit you are. Okay the state of your marriage.

Hey, his character is at can hold me in this place of stability seeing there is a storm in my home.

Well, I trust them. Well, I trust that he can heal this.

Why trust that he can intervene while I trusted did my friendships in my my health in my finances and my parenting in the midst of my dreams? Write the state of your friendship your health your friendship means the matter. They all matter they matter so much. Got character got soccer dates of intervention. They matter more and they get to be like this thing that holds us.

And this trust it's it's simple, but it's not small and some ways. It's just like believe.

have faith It feels so simple, but it's not small. And and when I say something I don't mean easy, I don't think this is one of my favorite person to buy what might be one of yours is Lord. I believe help me in my I don't know how it finishes unbelief. You just need to let me trust you help me trust you more. Help me trust you more. I was having a conversation with a friend this week about this and in his response to me is you would like and try like it just sounds so simple it doesn't it? It it it sounds childish.

Videos, but honestly, it's so deep and then even goes on he says, you know every time I send against God actually as I sit here and I start to think about every time I give myself to send I'm saying God, I don't trust that your ways are best. That's what I'm doing. That's what I'm doing. So I started running through my head a bunch this last week. I said will I trust you got in here. I'm just going to give you some random thoughts. This could be dangerous that popped into my head like stream of Consciousness as I began outside question answer saying when Katie Knife Fight do I really trust you that you tell me to not let the sun go down on my anger and give the devil a foothold. Yeah, I'm probably the only spouse here the only husband here who you going to fight with your spouse. You say I just want to stay angry.

I'm sure I'm the only one. You know that moment when you have that fight. And there's that emotional there may not even be like physical distance, but there's that emotional distance. And I hear this a Fusion Sport do not let the sun go down on your anger and give the devil a foothold to create a break in your marriage. Will I trust that light rust if that's right? It got up off the couch and go pursue my wife and say let's fix this. Well, I trust is I carry hidden sense in my life and my bones are wasting under those will I trust that if I confess my sins he is faithful and just to forgive me my sins and to cleanse me from all unrighteousness and these bones that are weary that they actually rejoice. Scripture the promises. He's given to us.

Do I trust that his commands are not burdensome.

1st John like do I trust that do I trust when he says this is what's good that it's not so heavy that it's actually freedom for me.

Do I trust that? He's working all things out for good? I got the monster text. I called Romans 8:28 for we know that for those who love God and are called according to his purposes. He's working all things together for good.

All things together do I trust that? Do I trust that? I trust this medical Republican. Do I trust this relational Inkster? I trust what's happening globally like we just like your you just go I cannot handle one more headline about North Korea and what might happen.

Do I trust him how he's working and acting and moving? Any this is incredible. I want you to hear this if you can hear hear this because I think one of the worst things we could do is hear trust is this command that you have to go do it supposed to a gift that you get to receive. Like right now wouldn't that did? Okay. I'm not trusting him. If I better hurry up a better try hard just receive what God is inviting you to don't hear this is it called this call to the trusses to come in here to an invitation? Not at work you have to do but is a gift you can receive don't want you to know stood Jonah wasn't trusting to wasn't trusting God and God still intervenes. God's intervention into Jonas life had nothing to do with the degree of Jonah's trust in God. Is true for us isn't that good news is we're slow to trust him.

God's Pursuit has nothing to do with how well we trust him God's Pursuit is grounded in his very character and is confirmed by is considered an active gracious intervention. Most notably the giving of Jesus in the gospel. No matter how much you are or are not trusting God today. You cannot outrun his grace. Such good news and so his invitation to trusses an invitation to be able to be still. To have the sort of perfect peace whose mind is stayed on him the weather you're in, more storms to say God's got this and God got me. What do you believe it or not does not change the reality that God's got this and God's Got You.

I love verses 5 and 6 as we follow this in the Mariners were afraid you. Just hear this you hear this fear. And this powerlessness in the story is the storms coming. God comes any Sovereign Over the Sea he throws a hurricane easily with just power. He is great beyond belief, but if we are honest we are fairly powerless. And in that we actually are given another opportunity to trust him. Have a good supper. We're into this is who I am and this is who God is maybe I will throw my lot with God. Like look at the powerlessness and verse 5 the Mariners were afraid these guys have been in tons of storms with your fearful May Cry out to their gods. They're just calling out to any Avenue. They possibly can to come and deal with the storm that's in their life. They throw their cargo that was in the ship to the lightning and then join us now. He might have gone down before the storm and falling asleep. He might have gone down in the storm to fall asleep. But whatever the case is, he just decides to call good if you see me like that Discovery Channel Animal Planet things we have these pygmy sheep and when they get scared, did you like the picture I get with a Chona for the second service is great. I'm going to I'm going to try to sleep through. It. Just don't wake me up and there's just this powerlessness in the sphere. This provides us just another opportunity to ask do I trust God for when we come to the end of ourselves? We come to God in our uncertainty and our confusion and we say God help me trust you.

Help me trust you. I can't fix this one. I can't solve it. I can't stop the storm. Help me trust you.

And because God is as gracious as he is great. He's his gracious as he is powerful. We have confidence that he will. Like I love this question this text. So the captain came in verse 6 and said to him. What do you mean you sleeper arise call out to your God and this is like listening. Perhaps. The God will give us thought to us that we may not perish. Perhaps Perhaps the guy perhaps the god that you serve I don't even know who it is, but perhaps he will give thought to us that we may not perish and enjoying the following parts of Jonah chapter one will find out the God does care and God does intervene and God does calm the storm. But he does see that he does pay attention perhaps he has already taken those. That's why the storm is there in the first place. God is already taken notice. He's already intervening in his severe mercies and Jonas to bring him into gracious Community Fellowship back with the guts to knit him together in his mother's room and Jonah keeps running and God keeps pursuing perhaps God will take notes. He already has and don't we have the most glorious answer to the perhaps in this verse? Who is it? Who's the ultimate Act of intervention to God perhaps might take noticed us that we might not perish. It's a Sunday school answering you know it. Jesus is the ultimate expression of God taking notice of us that we might not perish.

God looks down and he notices the world in chaos and confusion. He notices a world in broken relationships and struggles and sickness and and worry.

He takes notice cuz he's not distant. And then he does something because he's not in different. He gives of his son Jesus Christ. He puts his son on this Earth. The walk amongst us that we might know that he is present. And then his son walks all the way to a cross to take on our sin to take on her pain to take on her suffering to conquer death because he is not indifferent. The Jesus rises from the tomb is a declaration that all who throw their lot with Christ will not perish. That's what Eric Hot Fuzz.

You know, what questions do you have what perhaps is do you have in your life to Christ is not the ultimate answer for Perhaps God crap. Someone will see me God saw you sent his son for you.

Perhaps Perhaps, God will forgive me. God sent his son to provide your forgiveness. Perhaps God will will kill me one day God will raise you from the dead as a new creation in Christ Jesus because he said his son for you. Perhaps God won't let me feel so lonely anymore. He sent his son so that you know that you matter and your significant and you will be with him forever. Perhaps God will restore the relational NC will one day in his new kingdom of his new creation when he comes back, they'll be no. Let me know they'll be no fighting amongst people anymore amongst a billion other buses.

Perhaps the God will give a thought to us that we may not perish. Absolutely he sent his son Christ, but we trust that let's pray.

Heavenly Father we

We come in this. What seems to be so simple and yet is truly profound and just because it's clear doesn't mean it's easy. That we might trust you. When you say arise and go we want to say yes and where?

Got my we come to you with our storms what we come to you with our struggles might we come to you with our concerns and frustrations weather what's going on in our lives as the result of our own Disobedience or weather is just the result of a result of just some Brokenness around us God. We all need the same thing to throw are Laden with you in the crowd to you and say and take notice and do something turn our hearts to help us to trust you.

Help us to find that place of Refuge with you that that you would truly be like a port in the midst of a storm. That's well protected and shielded and while the storms in the waves are rage and everywhere else were in a safe harbor has recovered in Christ. Do this for your glory do it for our cam in Jesus name? We pray I don't trust and then we'll move forward. This is massive massive massive massive for trust treat trust as a gift not as a work. Right. Now we have in this moment. If it's just a command trust is a gift that God has given to us. What to give to Faith to believe in any way but also don't hear this is a command here. This is an invitation to have your confidence in him not at work you do but it's a gift that you get to receive. This isn't your work. This is a gift that God gives you as you revealed his character any shows you his constant Grace and probably what I'm getting this would look at Jonah Jonah did not trust God as he's running from God and His Disobedience God still in Irving. You may not trust God. I may not trust God God Stone Irving's God's love for us is not contingent on our degree of trust in him. The more that we know God's incredible unquenchable love for us. The more that our trust in him will actually grown mature. It's a just guard against this Tennessee to try to conjure up and develop this is increased restroom as if it's something that you have to work for. You cannot outrun God's grace. You can't what are you believe that or not? Got so good. He ain't going to let you go. You can insert a little butter verse for her. But the Lord heard the win.

You're going to verses 5 and 6 and we see this the marriage were afraid. He's cries out to his God that her other cargo. I'm insisting this picture of a really of powerlessness. And the midst of the storm in this is just this declaration of the greatness and the awesomeness of God. They're calling out to their various gods are looking for any thread of cell salvation. They can find Mayfield ship lighter movie. OK Google call Target. Maybe we'll be okay and I love this this picture because I think it actually honestly puts us back towards this place of saying are we going to trust God? You're exhausted all of their means of trying to save their situation and save themselves. They threw the car go over there to pulling up to the gods doing everything. They can't one of the great gifts that God is giving to these people in this story is that when we come to the end of ourselves we come to the place. We say God help me trust you cuz I don't got this.

I love that. Here's the hope we can out. When we ask that. We can know this God is as gracious as he is powerful. God shows his power in this text, but he also shows his grace look at the last verse. So the captain came and said don't be talking to Jonah. It doesn't like one of these things like a have you ever seen the video clips of animals like the pygmy sheep are like passing on the hillside and then they seem like a threat down and sleep. That's the picture. I have of Jonah cuz like how do you sleep through this hurricane?

A guy comes to that in the midst of his power. And we have this this question. We have this kind of phrase from that from the captain. So the captain came to reverse it says what do you mean you sleeper arise call out your God listening. Listen to the concern the anxiety the fear the the like we need help sort of behind this line, perhaps I don't know if you will perhaps the God will give us thought to us that we may not perish.

I loved it in this tax. God does give us thought he does send Deliverance. He does, see that's exactly what he does. But if we take this from the story of Jonah and we large it to the entire Bible in all of our faith. We could say that Jesus Christ is the ultimate answer this question if perhaps God will take notice of us and do something so that we don't Parish That's the great trust Builder the great trust Builders you call that so maybe God's perhaps God will take notice of me that I won't feel alone. He sent his son that you might be in fellowship with perhaps. God will take notice of me see that I'm struggling and stuck in my sin and I need a deliver. He sent his son Jesus perhaps my relationship day. He's going to produce perfect reconciliation. Perhaps God will take notice in the midst of of this disease that I'm battling and he will heal me. Jesus is the reality of that he came to abolish death and sickness. That's a great news that we have that the trusted that did did Jonah live in the trust that we can have is ultimately declared to be to be trustworthy because of the giving of Jesus Christ for us. Like what perhaps do you have in your life right now where Christ doesn't give you an answer? If God would dude that do you think he's forgotten you?

If your storm right now is because of your Disobedience if there's things in your life that are really going sideways.

Do you not think if you turn to God, he's gracious to the welcome you to love you to receive you he gave us some for you.

Such an incredible incredible God we serve. Such an amazing picture of God's intervening Grace and I guess for us the question is this what we trust. We trust God we trust it and here's a reality. I know what this even if you don't guess what you cannot run his grace. He never lets his kids go. Not really really really good news for a room of people that are prone to wander.

Heavenly Father you're such a good dad to us.

You're just so kind it is Unsinkable and inexhaustible. And I and I ask that you would grant us would you? Help us in our unbelief help us where we lack trust help us to run to you. I would imagine at this point. I have probably Edge. I'm definitely guessing pretty sure scenes of Jonah. What a turn. So let's turn the ship around and go back. I have a mission that got called at it. I got to imagine the storms would have it would have subsided. Psych help us to do to help us to turn up at the always throw ourselves towards you help us with great confidence to know that we cannot out send you your grade so we cannot outrun it. That your grave Mercy is not be distant from us and do not be indifferent to us. But to directly care for us. Sometimes that feels severe sometimes that act of your mercy feels severe. Sometimes it feels very sweet. But it's all from the hand of a good God is just trying to get us where you want us to go because it's where we actually want to be.

I was the belief that in Jesus name we pray. Amen.