God will use whatever it takes to get our attention.
He will use whatever is necessary to get us to listen.
In Jonah’s case, He used the weather.
The Bible says that “Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.”
In other words, God threw an inside fastball at Jonah.
And I don’t think that God sent a storm to be unusually cruel. I don’t even think he sent the storm to pay him back for his disobedience.
I believe that God sent the storm to get Jonah back on the path of obedience.
He was not trying to pay him back, but to bring him back.
And there’s a big difference.
And what God did for Jonah, He still does today.
I’m not saying every “storm” that comes into your life is the result of God trying to restore you back into a greater relationship with Him, but I do believe that many of them are.
And sometimes, the best way God shows us His undying love for us is by sending a storm our way.