We are so funny in our rebellion! Jonah was running from God because he did not want to testify to Nineveh the very thing that God told him to. Yet we see in Jonah 1:9-10 and Jonah 3:3, that running did not make it so Jonah did not have to testify. In fact he ends up testifying more! To the mariners he testifies of who his God is and that cost him a fare. To the city of Nineveh he testifies the message that God gave him to tell them (3:3) and that cost him no money, just three days journey. Running can cause you to do the very thing you did not want to do in the first place: testify. Who are you testifying to and who does God want you to testify to?
