Jonah: More Than Hatred for Nineveh
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“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting on the other person to die.”
“The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love."
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Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry.
So he prayed to the Lord, and said, “Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.
Exodus 34:5–7 (NKJV)
“The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.”
gospel of luke fifteen chapter and rest of Jonah
Problem # 1 – We gladly receive God’s grace but don’t extend it to others.
Problem # 2 – Without grace, we act as debt collectors, not as debt forgivers.
Problem # 3 – Where grace is rejected, and when resentment reigns, we will not rejoice.
It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’ ”
Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”
But where Jonah shows God great resentment, God shows Jonah great restraint.
Then the Lord said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
I see the depts of the Father’s love – I won’t complain.
His mercy came down from up above – I won’t complain.
When all my sin He has owned, The great extent to which He’s gone
No greater love has anyone known – I won’t complain.
From the wounds in His nail-scarred hands – I won’t complain.
Upon His head a thorn-filled band – I won’t complain.
With his body broken and blood shed, Not a displeasing word He said.
All for me He bowed His Head – I won’t complain.
O, let us praise His holy name!
The Lord is good, yes He is
And true to all His promises – Why should I complain?
I know He’s risen from the grave – I won’t complain.
I know He has the power to save – I won’t complain.
His Holy Spirit with me abide
The risen Christ at the Father’s side
In Him I have eternal life.
No, no I won’t complain.
Lyrics to the song “I Won’t Complain”