“I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Monday, February 23, 2004
Am I Like Jonah?
As some of you know I attend Church Under the Bridge. This Sunday I heard a challenging sermon. The pastor talked about the story of Jonah and God's calling. He made a point that I had not heard before. He said that most of the time we are like Jonah in that we know what God wants us to do. If you're not Christian you still can have a sense of something you should do. The point is, we often don't do it. We don't want to. It boils down to a choice. Jonah did not want to preach to Ninevah. He knew they might repent and be spared from God's wrath. I started to think about what I know God wants me to do. I feel called to to go to another country to do the Lord's work. I have had a strong interest for a long time, but I haven't gone. I haven't even tried to go with any group. Why not?
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