verse of the day

Wednesday 3 October 2018

The wicked ( Romans 5 v 6 - 8 )

The bible shows God as being forgiving ,this upset Jonah,so he fled  away from Gods command to go to the city of Nineveh. Eventually he went and preached to them a message of judgement,the result was ,the people of Nineveh repented of their sins ,God responded to them ,and had  compassion on them, and did not bring destruction upon them.Well this did not go down to well with Jonah,so much so ,that he was angry that God had spared such a wicked city.In his anger he prayed to God  he knew that He was gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in love ,one who relents from sending calamity. Because of this he ran away from God ,in other words He wanted God to destroy the Ninevites, After praying he wanted God to take his life, he went and lay down,God caused a plant to spring up to give him shade,and then caused it to die,which caused Jonah again ,to desire to die.But God spoke to him,pointing out that Jonah was more concerned with the plant dying, than the one hundred and twenty thousand people plus the animals whom he wanted God to destroy. I wonder sometimes how people care more for their comforts than the souls of the lost . Well even though there are people who are wicked and are in our eyes worthy of destruction God loves them,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Christ died for the ungodly,                                                                                                                       Christ for His enemies,                                                                                                                                Christ did for us.                                                                                                               

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