We Are All Runaways

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Aug 8, 2025 · 4m

READ: JONAH 1-3; LUKE 15:1-7 Picture this: God asks me to go to a new school. You know, the one all the way across town. I’ve never visited. I have no friends there. A new kid, let alone a quiet kid like me, could be turned into creamed cauliflower before lunch. And, as if changing schools isn’t enough, God wants me to talk to the people I meet— and tell them about Jesus. I’m a goner. Everything I’m feeling—the roiling in my gut, the clenching of my teeth—is nothing compared to how Jonah must have felt when God called him to the city of Nineveh. Nearly six hundred miles away from his hometown…