Devotionals Mar 8 – Apr 7, 2024: Abandoning Your Calling?

This month the devotional contains the books of Jonah and Philemon. Although these two books might not seem to be similar—one about an Old Testament prophet, the other about a New Testament slave—they actually share a common theme. Both Jonah and Onesimus (Philemon’s servant) abandoned their callings. Jonah was called by God to preach to Nineveh, but instead, he fled from God and tried to escape his calling. Onesimus was called to be Philemon’s servant, but Paul encounters him far from his...