Jonah 4:3 Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to do than to live.

So many times when we hear the Great Commission and we are reminded to go, we automatically think that means go to a place where people are hearing the word of God every day. When Christ said, “Go into all the World and preach the gospel to every creature”, I believe Christ was giving priority to those who haven’t heard. So, many times we are like Jonah, we would rather believe that God is a gracious and merciful God, and that somehow everyone will hear the gospel even if we don’t go. Many will never leave there comforts to go to a city like Nineveh where there are people who have never heard the gospel. Instead we will go to areas where people already have Gods Word. The Bible says in Jonah 4:3 that Jonah was asking God to take his life from him and he said, “…it is better for me to die than live.” In Philippians 2, Paul makes the statement that it was needful for him to be alive. What is the difference between these 2 men? Paul was obeying Christ’s command to go into all the world, while Jonah was running back to the city where he could be more comfortable instead of taking God’s Word to a people who had not heard. Are you running from God? Do people think you are serving God, but deep inside you know you were not willing to go to the Nineveh? If we are not careful we will find ourselves in the same situation as Jonah where it would be better if we were just dead.