Bitesize Jonah (6)

JONAH - A USEFUL LESSON TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD
Jonah was a believer in God
He worshipped no false God; he worshipped only the living and true God. He was a professed and avowed believer in Jehovah. He was not ashamed to say – even when his conduct had laid him open to blame, when there was nobody to support him – “I am Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.” Yet, though he was a believer in God, he was in the sides of the ship, fast asleep.
O Christian man – a real Christian man, too – if you’re in a similar condition, how is it you can be slumbering, inactive, careless, indifferent? I may be addressing dozens of Jonahs, those who are really God’s people, but who are not acting as if they were chosen of the most high; but are forgetful of their election, their redemption, their sanctification, the life they have begun to live here below, and the eternal glories that await them hereafter.

Men & Women of OT, p180