Jonah 4: 9-11

God cares about ALL His creation.  A.L.L.  If we have a problem with loving sinners (those with different sins than our own) or those who  we see as being different than ourselves then it is our problem….not His. 

9-11 Jesus to the rescue!

Gods’  love is so great, so powerful, so extreme that if we can get someone to grasp His agape kind of love  for them we will bring a smile to the very faces of the angels in His Kingdom. Wow!!!!

It was never Gods’ desire for anyone to perish but through Jesus to have an equal opportunity to enter in. He loves the good, the bad and the downright ugly and gave His only begotten Son to die for all of us.

If Jonah could take pity on a plant, which is even less important than an animal, it only made sense that God would take pity on human beings, who are made in God’s image. The Book of Jonah ends on this note of contrast between Jonah’s ungracious heart and the kind heart of the Lord.

The Book of Jonah challenges God’s people not to exalt themselves over others. The Lord, the great King, is free to bless, to be gracious, and to be patient with all the nations of the earth. More than that, He may show compassion even on the wicked. Indeed, His mercy extends even to animals.

Jonah 4: 9-11

 Then God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”

And he said, “It is right for me to be angry, even to death!”

¹⁰ But the Lord said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night. ¹¹ 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?