Scripture Verse that caught my attention today: Jonah 4:11 And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?”
Observation: God has concern.
Application: It’s easy in this world to wonder if God really is concerned. So many people face so many struggles. And while many of these struggles are admittedly a result of our own poor judgment, some of them are not. And at times to many it seems as if God does nothing more than just watch, if even that.
The story of Jonah in general and the verse above in particular strive to debunk theories of the God that just watches or the God that ignores. Here we see that God is concerned and that God often times expresses that concern by working through human beings who, ironically, don’t always seem to be that concerned—or who have concern but only for their bushes and the like.
Surely we ought to be able to do better than that. Thankfully our Lord gives us many a call and opportunity.
Prayer: Lord, help me to have at least a fraction of the concern that you have always had for your people near and far. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
(Readings today included Jonah 1-4, 2 Timothy 2)
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