Question: Do you get angry if God doesn’t do things on your time table?
We finished Jonah this week and we being doing the Introduction to James on Sunday. We will be meeting in the Sr. High Youth Sunday School Room.
We continued our discussion on Jonah and his attitudes and behaviors. We left Jonah last week camping out to see what God would do to Nineveh.
We also continued our discussion on Jonah’s responsibilities as a prophet. We even discussed how all of our technology can hinder our memorization and truly knowing the Word of God.
God prepares a plant for Jonah for shade. Then the next day He prepares a worm to destroy the plant. He also prepares a hot east wind to blow on Jonah. I propose God is trying to both get Jonah’s attention and teach him a lesson.
Jonah’s reaction over the plant dying. He gets angry and states once again “It is better for me to die than live.” I can’t help but think Drama Prophet here.
God is trying to get Jonah to realize how much He cares for the 120,000 people and livestock in Nineveh. God doesn’t want to destroy them (even though eventually it does happen).
We need to see where we are like Jonah and then repent. Everyone always teaches that Jonah is a book of repentance and it is but we decided in our class where the true repentance was exhibited was in the sailors/fisherman who threw Jonah overboard to quiet the storm.
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