Capture and Confession | Craig Curtis

  

Your irresponsibility becomes someone else's responsibility.

  

Jonah 1:12a NIV

12 “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm.

  

When We Make a Bad Choice:

1. Take responsibility.

  

- "It's my fault; I shouldn't have said that; I didn't know you were so sensitive..."

    (Translation: "Your feelings are the real issue here.")

- "It's my fault I forgot to get the milk; I thought you were gonna remind me."

    (Translation: "This is 50% YOUR fault.")

- "It's my fault I forgot to pick up the kids – but don't you normally do that?"

    (Translation: "You've got to manage us all better.")

    

Jonah 1:12 NIV

12 “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”

   

"You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes."  - Coach John Wooden

  

Proverbs 28:13 TLB

13 A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful. But if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance.

  

Jonah 1:17a NIV

17 Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah...

  

Pain isn't always punishment.

  

When We Make a Bad Choice:

2. Pray and repent.

  

Jonah 2:1 NIV

1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.

  

Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.

  

Jonah 2:1-2 NIV

1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. 2 He said: “In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry.

  

Jonah 2:10 NIV

10 And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

   

Verse 1, Jonah prays; Verse 10, Jonah gets his miracle.

Don't stop praying.

  

Jonah 2:9 NIV

9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the Lord.’”

  

Start the praise before the provision.

  

When We Make a Bad Choice:

3. Embrace God's grace.

  

Jonah 3:1-2 NIV

1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

  

God's grace is greater.

  

Romans 8:1 NIV

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,