Unbreakable Hope | Jonah and the Whale | Pastor Steve Andres

What is God teaching you through your troubles? After Jonah’s experience in the fish, he was a changed man. Jonah 3:1-2Then the Lord spoke to Jonah a second time: “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.”God uses disappointments, failures and suffering to bring change to our hearts and lives. What did Jonah learn in the school of suffering?1) Suffering teaches us how to be humble.When we deny our brokenness, we delay our healing. Suffering shines a light on our need for God, not just to help our suffering, but to heal our sin.2) Suffering teaches us how to help.Your greatest gift will often come from the place of your deepest wound. In failure and pain we learn to be compassionate and sensitive to others.3) Suffering teaches us how to hope.A rugged hope in God’s redemption gives us strength to endure, even when circumstances are unresolved. Don’t let the dark nights go to waste! Because Jesus paid the penalty for our sin, God can redeem every failure and every disappointment!