I read a good thought that I wanted to share.
The story of Jonah is one of the most popular accounts of the Bible. I guess the fact that the guy was swallowed up by a fish adds that extra little pizazz. Any way as the story goes God spoke to Jonah and told him something to do. Jonah didn’t want to do it and ran from God, disobeying the word spoken to him. Now look at what is said in chapter 3:1. Between this verse and when Jonah disobeyed God dealt with Jonah (here’s the fish part) and he had a change of heart. So as we read in 3:1 it says that God spoke to Jonah again a second time. And what God had to say was the same as what He told him at the first.
Now look at a second character of the Bible, Jeremiah. He was quite different than Jonah in that he did obey, the first time, what God had spoken to him to do and say. In Jeremiah 33:1 we also read of the word of the Lord coming to him a second time. However this second time is different than what Jonah experienced. It wasn’t just the same message that God had spoken to him the first time. Here in verse 3 it says that God expanded upon what He told Jeremiah. Because of Jeremiah’s obedience to what God had previously spoken to him, God was now going to give him a further revelation of His will.
So ask yourself today, “Have I done what the Lord has already revealed to me that I should do?” If you want to know more of God will then do what He has already spoken to you to do.
