"The LORD hurled a great wind on the sea so that the ship was about to break up" -Jonah 1:4
The Lord holds infinite power in His hands. He shapes lands, gave breath to life, created all things. Throughout history in the Bible, it seems that God always has a thing for winds and waters. He made the winds blew so hard so as to create a path thru the Red Sea for His people to escape Pharaoh and then once more in a river so that His Ark of the Covenant may cross. Yet this time, the winds blew in peril, against one who is disobedient. Did God really have to go that far?
To think that God is a ruthless slave-driver would probably equate to sin. To marvel at His great insight and foreknowledge is quite another thing. God knows the extent of His power and so He employs to a uttermost perfection, a wind, that almost, just almost, break the ship up. He knows what it would take to bring a erring child of God back to the right way, being, the fulfillment of His will. And He will move heaven and earth (idiom here, not literally.) to achieve this. What a glorious thought!
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