Jonah, in running from the Lord, unwittingly created a typology which Christ later used in explaining his rising from the dead. We may excuse Jonah's actions because God used him greatly in the conversion of Nineveh but Paul's message to Timothy is more grounded; don't lose your focus, don't get sidetracked by trivial issues, keep Christ and his message as the goal of ministry. I would love to get the results Jonah got but as a soldier of mediocre rank I must first and foremost be grounded in Christ and his message to an unsaved world.
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