Day 87 - Jonah 4

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Jonah 4  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 5
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V.1 Why do you think Jonah was angry?
V.2-4 Because he thought of himself before others and before the Lord. He tells why he ran away, because he knew that the Lord was gracious, and that He would not carry out the threat of destruction! He would rather have had all dead in Nineveh than that his words would not be carried out!
V.5-7 In verse 6 it says that the LORD God sent a blessing, but in verse 7 it says that GOD sent the destroying worm. His grace does the first. His righteousness does the second.
V.5-11 So the Lord causes a miracle to happen. Did Jonah do anything to make the tree grow? He was glad when a good thing came his way, but angry when a bad thing happened. Often believers are like this. And this is what we can learn from this story. The Lord always has a lesson for us to learn in all the things which happen to us.
V.11 To come to know the Lord better is to learn how gracious and kind He is to every one of us who has put his trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Jonah was a sign to the Gentiles (Nineveh), Read Luke 11:3030For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. (Luke 11:30); and a sign to the Jews (Matt. 12:3939But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: (Matthew 12:39)).