The Gift vs The Giver Who Wins?
God gives Jonah a gift of a plant…Jonah loves the plant but he is still angry with God who gave him the plant. He loves the gift and hates the Giver. The gift vs the Giver, who wins?
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God gives Jonah a gift of a plant…Jonah loves the plant but he is still angry with God who gave him the plant. He loves the gift and hates the Giver. The gift vs the Giver, who wins?
How you treated those who wrong you, is how you will be treated by those you wrong. How we treat those who owe us is how we will be treated by those we owe. If only we took this divine principle seriously, the world would be a better place.
A slow learner doesn’t get the obvious lesson. Think of a whole class of slow learners. Think of a whole community of slow learners. Yet The Teacher is the best and undoubtedly excellent. This is what Israel was in their relationship with God. The whole community of God’s people was painfully slow in getting the spiritual lessons God was teaching them. God can’t be blamed for sure, these are just difficult people. Spiritual slow learners!
When you are already in trouble, in hot soup, the way out is one, just acknowledge that heaven rules. Acknowledge genuinely. God responds to anyone who pledges allegiance to Him. Manasseh was a wicked king for fifty-five years. As Manasseh went to exile as punishment for his sins, he came to his senses and acknowledged that heaven rules, 2 Chronicles 33:10-13. Immediately Manasseh was restored. When you acknowledge that heaven rules.
Negotiating with God means you seek to understand Him and in certain matters, He would allow you to have your way because it does not defy His will. God tells David through Nathan that he shouldn’t have killed Uriah in order to have his wife Bethsheba, God says, if David should have informed God that he needs another wife or anything else, God says He would have provided, 2 Samuel 12:8. God expected David to engage Him. God expected David to negotiate with Him. You can actually negotiate with God, wow!
This is the best news ever. Our punishment will end. Your financial problems are a punishment for sin. Your punishment will end. Your relationship problems are a punishment for sin. God says your punishment will end. Your I’ll health is a punishment for sin. God says your punishment will end. Your failures, losses, disappointments, and frustration are a punishment for sin. God says your punishment will end!
How could the safest and untouchable be destroyed with such ease? How could a most feared nation be brought down to nothing in a very short period of time? Why were the safest and untouchables affected?
Therefore the seven women scrambling for a husband is an event of that time when God punished Israel by sending them to the Babylonian captivity. The event is not in the future but in the past. It teaches us that God punishes evil. It teaches us that the evil will someday be so desperate.
The world wonders, where will we get money? The believers respond by praying, dear God provides us with some money. Where the world wonders, the believers pray to God.