The Old Testament Prophet Isaiah reminded the Jewish people of his day that God’s ways are very different from man’s ways as God spoke through him declaring:

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.  (Isaiah 55:8-9)

Nowhere is this contrast between God’s ways and man’s ways clearer than in the account of another Old Testament prophet who lived a century before Isaiah, the prophet Jonah.

What happens when one who should faithfully determine to “do it God’s way” decides instead to “do it my way”?  One such scenario is displayed in this next study of the book of Jonah.

Chapter three of the book recounts a most unlikely response to a most unlikely message preached by a most unlikely prophet, but even more dramatic is the contrast between the character of God and His ways and the character of the prophet and his ways.

Let’s turn to Jonah chapter three for another study in the series, “Jonah:  I Did It MY Way” in an episode with the intriguing, but perplexing title:  “I Was Afraid That Would Happen!” 

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