Rear-View Mirror God

Jonah was a runner. But he wasn't running toward anything, like a marathoner pushes forward toward the finish line. He was running from something. It doesn't take much self-examination to realize that we've all run from something at some point in our lives. Though the length of the run is different for each of us, we all share the tendency to follow our own paths. Even when we explicitly know what it is that God wants us to do, like Jonah did, we still run in the opposite direction of where God is leading us.