Pharisees and Sadduccees came asking Jesus for a sign, this actually comes after feeding of the four thousand and five thousand, but it a different story of the event by details. If you wonder why, what does your friend remember about a movie and what do you remember about a movie. Each will tell similiarities and others will have other parts they remember better. Basically everyone will remember several different parts of the same story told. Yet what is so important about the religious leaders desire for a sign. Jesus uses the response of the sign in nature that comes and goes with and without saying, it is a sky is red then there be fair weather. To many of these old saying make little since unless one spends time outdoors or have had time to spend time outdoors to learn about signs that nature gives. If we only look for the sign of natural events in our life many of us would say time is now for Christ return, but is it? Man seeks a wicked and adulterous generation that look for signs but none will be given but the sign of the prophet Jonas/Jonah.

Jonah is probably the best character in speaking of signs of his day for he was not only running from God but backslidden in regards to obedience ot God in his call to ministry. He was also a man that lacked passion on others like himself, and even convinced they deserved not the mercy of God, and then God revealed his mercy on Jonah life as a large fish swallowed him, and after three days of repentance Jonah was thrown up on shore, only to go preach to the city the need of repentance, only to watch the city below him from a hill wondering why God did not destory, but showed mercy upon it,

The prophet ever preaching repentance without understanding God's mercy upon it is a sad state of affairs, when we can not see God's mercy in our own life. Yet the need or desire for a sign is also desire of the nation that knows the reality of God, but denies God is with them and only seeks signs and wonders from heaven of proof of God being in the things they see. Pharisees had all kinds of signs following Jesus, healing, feeding of the four and five thousand, and yet they could not believe.

If God heals then did you believe what God did for a friend, or love one, or did you doubt instead of praising God. Did the Spirit speak to you the reality of the healing of your friend or love one. If he did you knew in your heart the reality of this be of God. The believer call to repentance in a church, when a person finds Christ for the first time. The congregation praying without knowledge of necessarily who, but they know God is calling on sinner to repentance, proof of the Spirit, but do we rejoice or say wait and see if this person really receive Christ? Did you not know in Spirit the call was there. Did you not hear Christ call on your own soul?

Did you not know the reality of God at conversion? What more proof do you need. What has it been ten years since that time or twenty, what more proof do you need. In truth we seek the signs but we fail to realize there signs all around with the conversion of one sinner coming to Christ. If we would teach about rejoicing about the sign of the soul that is saved, we understand that God is still working on the lives of all of us. That inkling of a moment in time, of God's Spirit reaching down on the lost, even to conviction to yield to his will in ministry, to yield to his desire in our life, without music, or song, but God speak to our hearts by maybe a small stream or inside our house, or our way to work, time meditation on God's word or just a call to change things in our life for the betterment of our life and lives of others around us.

The sign of Jonah the sign of repentance, the sign of God's mercy in a sinners life, the sign of hope is still in the world to those willing to change and yield to the path God's has for them, to do his will, but to live a life more abundantly. Where are you today, still seeking signs or seeking the hope God has offered in your own life of his saving grace through Christ Jesus, the reassurance of the eternal home in heaven, and the desires of your heart being meet even in one's own life time on earth. Maybe understanding the will of God is greater still then just salvation and hope, but in also everyday living for Jesus.

Dear Heavenly Father give us the sign of Jonah in the adulterous generation that turns from you only to come and repent and seek to live for you. Help this generation to repent to seek and hold to your hope of promise. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Jonah 3:1-10 KJV
1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.