Jonah 4:9-11
4:9 - Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have good reason to be
angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to
death.”
When man refuses to learn the
first time (v. 4:4), God brings the same lesson around again.
Man is shortsighted on the
temporal and himself.
4:10 - Then the Lord said, “You had compassion on the plant for which you
did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and
perished overnight.
The Lord will point out man's shortcomings...
4:11 - Should I not have
compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000
persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as
well as many animals?”
...and will entreat him to align
his thoughts with God's thoughts.
Cod is compassionate not only on
wicked people, but also animals.
God sees adults and children as
different. (unless the phrase "do not know the difference between their
right and left hand" refers to people who are ignorant of God and His
statutes).
Paragraph Summary
Man is wrapped up with concern for
his own comfort and does not care for others' comfort.
God is wrapped up with concern for
others.
Chapter 4 Notes and Summary
Erroneous thinking: If you take comfort in material things,
God will take it away. While God may choose to remove obstacles that get in the
way of our relationship with Him, it is not automatic that God will remove
material things that comfort us.
Chapter 4 boiled down to a sentence: Man is
self-centered; God is compassionate.
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