It\u2019s a mistake to cling to someone when God is telling you to let them go. Until you obey God, the storm you\u2019re in will keep getting worse, as in the case of Jonah. The Bible says: \u2018The sea was growing more tempestuous. And [Jonah] said to them, \u201cPick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know\u2026 this great tempest is because of me.\u201d Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous\u2026 Therefore they cried out to the Lord and said, \u201cWe pray, O Lord, please do not let us perish for this man\u2019s life, and do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O Lord, have done as it pleased You.\u201d So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.\u2019<\/i> (Jonah 1:11\u201315 NKJV) <\/p>\n
God has a plan for the \u2018Jonahs\u2019 you\u2019re dealing with, and it may require them to hit the bottom before they rise again. And as long as you keep trying to rescue them, God\u2019s plan is being thwarted and delayed. Jonah\u2019s problem wasn\u2019t that he didn\u2019t love<\/i> God, it was that he didn\u2019t want to do God\u2019s will.<\/i> So God resorted to extreme measures to get his attention, push him towards his destiny, and save the city of Nineveh. You have no idea what God has in mind for the person He\u2019s asking you to let go of. If they are His redeemed children, He wants to prosper them (see Jeremiah 29:11). That\u2019s why He wants to save them\u2014so let them go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s a mistake to cling to someone when God is telling you to let them go. Until you obey God, the storm you\u2019re in will keep getting worse, as in the case of Jonah. The Bible says: \u2018The sea was growing more tempestuous. And [Jonah] said to them, \u201cPick me up and throw me into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}