Morning Coffee With Renae

Jonah 4:3 “Now, O Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.” Have you ever had a really bad day? How about a bad week, or month, or even year? Perhaps your whole life seems to be going down the tubes. Well, that’s the kind of frustration [...]

Jonah 4:2 “He prayed to the Lord, ‘O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending [...]

Jonah 4:1 “But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry.” Have you ever been seething, boiling angry? I’m not talking about a little miffed. I’m talking about the kind of angry where you feel you will explode, the kind of angry where you want to hit someone or destroy something. That’s the kind of anger [...]

Jonah 3:10 “When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened.” NLT “It’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind.” That old adage has been my defense for many an indecisive moment [...]

Jonah 3:7 – 9 “Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: ‘By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let [...]

Well, Jonah was only in the belly of the whale for three days and nights. But apparently, I’m not as compassionate as our Almighty God, and I have left the poor fellow hanging in cyberspace for nearly six months. When I get to glory, I’ll have to seek him out and beg his forgiveness. All [...]