Today is Tuesday, October 1, 2019, and here is your daily devote. We can see from Jonah's reaction to the repentance of Nineveh and the circumstances surrounding the plant, the condition of his heart. It was contrary to the heart of God. When God saw Nineveh's repentance, he relented from his anger.
When Jonah saw the same event, he was greatly displeased and became furious. The story of Jonah ends abruptly, with God posing a question, yet no answer was recorded. But that seems to be the whole point of the ending. It forces us to contemplate our own personal response.
The story has no conclusion because it invites us to consider the ending as if we were Jonah. We are the rebellious people God has called into this world to obey his commands. We are the people who regularly run from the call of God, and he exposes the sin that lingers in our hearts. We are the people in need of God's great grace to once again turn our hearts to his gospel and to have our hearts aligned with his.
We are the people of God who have been charged to cross the borders of our lands and enter into foreign terracories and cultures with the message of the gospel that God has provided and escaped from judgment for those who repent and believe in Christ. So the book of Jonah closed within an opportunity for us to examine our own lives and hearts and ask. Am I going to live according to my will or God's will? Think about this.
What did God want Jonah to realize with his question about Jonah's anger in Jonah 4-4? Where in your life do you need to pray to work toward aligning your hearts and priorities with God in his priorities? Thank you for listening to The Daily Devo. Please send me a comment, like or share The Daily Devo.
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