Good morning people who fully surrender to and desire God’s will

On this final day of stepping through the Book of Jonah, I want to finish with a question that I have had as I read this Book several times. Here it is:

“Why did Jonah, who knew how good God was, not want Nineveh to be saved by God, so much so, that he would rather die than see them receive God’s grace and love?”

Here’s some explanations I have heard:

Firstly, Nineveh was a military enemy of God’s people, and Jonah knew that if God wiped them out as He said He would, then Jonah and God’s people would have peace from this enemy. If God relented, then their enemy would remain.

Secondly, Jonah was told to prophesy Nineveh was going to be overthrown in forty days, yet God relented and didn’t do what He told Jonah to prophesy. In Jonah’s eyes, his integrity as a prophet was now questionable.

While there are good lessons for us to learn from these two possible reasons, I want to lead us back to what I feel Father would have us meditate on as we finish this journey through the Book of Jonah.

“Do we want God’s will or our will most?”

I will leave us with the words of Jesus to His Father at the time of His intense anguish of soul:

“Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”