a servant
There are moments where God will bring me back to His feet.
In those moments He reminds me of His heart.
He reminds me of the love that He has for His creation.
Just as much as God loves me, He loves you and the next.
Every single one of us, He considers and has thought of.
In the end we are only servants of God, not The Judge.
When Jonah felt that He could be angry with the decision that God made, God showed Him why He had no right to be.
God had shown mercy to a city that He said He was going to overthrow.
Jonah 3:10 | AMP
“When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God [had compassion and] relented concerning the disaster which He had declared that He would bring upon them. And He did not do it.”
Jonah forgot that He isn’t the judge he was only the servant.
We aren't here to judge or here to decide who is worthy of what.
We are here to do the will of God, whatever that may look like in your life.
Jonah was used to relay a message but if God wants to change the message then He can.
Don't get so caught up in how you feel that you forget the character of the God you serve.
IF GOD can forgive HIS creation when they repent then we can too.
Jonah 4: 10-11 | AMP
“Then the Lord said, “You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.
11 Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 [innocent] persons, who do not know the difference between their right and left hand [and are not yet accountable for sin], as well as many [blameless] animals?”
We have to care for Gods people like He does.
Not because the person is nice to you or because they benefit you but because if you want to serve then you have to love how God loves and show grace how He does.
Your emotions cannot go above obeying God.
Even if it makes no sense to you if God is giving you directions you do it.
An emotional decision maker will disobey God simply because of how they feel.
When I think of someone who obeyed despite how they felt I think of the man who prayed for Paul (at the time Saul), Ananias.
And THAT WAS THE PRAYER that caused the scales on Paul’s eyes to fall off.
To think that Ananias knew what kind of man Paul was but he obeyed the voice of God anyways.
When Ananias prayed that prayer he said Acts 9:17 | AMP “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came [to Damascus], has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit [in order to proclaim Christ to both Jews and Gentiles].”
He called him “brother”. He didn't continue to hold onto to what he knew about Paul but he held onto what God spoke over Paul.
He trusted God and the will of God over his feelings.
