God Is Patient
And cares for humanity
Jonah 4:4-11
Read the Bible through:
AM - Isaiah 19-22 : PM - 2 Corinthians 5
"And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left-and much livestock?" (Jonah 4:11).
And cares for humanity
Jonah 4:4-11
Read the Bible through:
AM - Isaiah 19-22 : PM - 2 Corinthians 5
"And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left-and much livestock?" (Jonah 4:11).
God uses different standards to judge people than we do. God is holy and just. He cannot overlook sin, yet He sees each person as worthy of salvation. We oftentimes will judge someone based on human standards. We may think a person is "too bad" to be saved, but God never sees it that way. He is patient with us because He cares for humanity. He wants everyone to be saved.
Jonah went to Nineveh, as God commanded; yet he really did not see the people in that city as worthy of receiving God's forgiveness. He became angry because God forgave them when they repented. God explained to Jonah that He cared very much for the people of Nineveh. We, like Jonah, may not understand why some people are so important to God; but God sends us anyway to tell them the good news of God's gift of forgiveness.
God, help me to see others through Your eyes.
