He catches up to you

Application

The LORD is in the business of making His saints more like the Lord Jesus Christ, so, in His mercy, He does not allow His saints to sin successfully! “We gone get caught, always and always, and others gone get caught with us.”
Most saints in the midst of rebelling against the LORD’s will are in the storm potentially without realizing its existence or that they are its cause.
What does it say of God’s saints when pagans need to call them to action in crisis?
Before leaving port, the ship’s crew know nothing about Jonah except his desired destination, but now they want to know everything about him because “his ripples turned into a violent storm” that included them. This requires a reluctant prophet to testify to this group of people. *A bit of a bonus amidst the Lord’s discipline?!
Jonah’s statement here is not a clear message of “Repent or perish,” but, rather, it is a reluctant call for the crew to believe in the LORD God of heaven who created the sea and the dry land. The LORD is able to turn a saint’s confession of sin into a call for repentance.
Conclusion: “He catches up to you” is an immutable spiritual truth, not only during physical life on earth but for eternity! One commercial says, “Don’t leave home without it.” The LORD’s saints must tell people, “Don’t leave this life without the Lord Jesus Christ!”

Bible Text

(4) The LORD hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up. (5) Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried to his god, and they threw the cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone below into the hold of the ship, lain down and fallen sound asleep. (6) So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, call on your god. Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”(7) Each man said to his mate, “Come, let us cast lots so we may learn on whose account this calamity has struck us.” So they cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. (8) Then they said to him, “Tell us, now! On whose account has this calamity struck us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?” (9) He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land.”
-Jonah 1:4-9 (NASB)