Jonah-ANGER

Hello all...Edward here..My random flipping of the Bible brought me to the book of Jonah.And after asking someone due to curiosity..

Firstly what I've learn is that the root of anger is self.As God called him to 'Go to Nineveh to preached against it because its wickedness has come back me.' (verse2) But Jonah himself didn't like that city so instead of boarding the ship for Nineveh,he board the ship heading for Tarshish. (Are you angry with God about things that He call you to do but you dont like to do?)

God can call everyone or use anybody and says 'arise' but because of many things in our heart, we choose to 'sit down' and escape from it.

Anger distorts our perspective.
Eg:Jonah dislike the city of Nineveh.God called him to go there is preach against it.Because Jonah already dislikes the city so he might think that going there is pointless or he thinks low of that city. What if God calls you to minster to someone you dislike will you be like Jonah and escape? We often fail to see the bigger picture but God sees it.

God is also patience.As He could have end Jonah's life in the big fish because of Jonah's disobedience.

In the end the story ends with the vine and leaves thingys.I also didn't much understand this vine,leaves and worm thingys but after asking someone I understand only a little of it? LOL?!

Vine=Problems?
Worm=God?

As Jonah was resting under the Sun and God provided him with the vines and brought shade. But later God send worm to eat it up and there was no longer shade.

We sees only the vine so God send the worm to eat away the vine so that we can see Him again.The worm is to protect us and guide us back so we can see the Sunlight again?

The story ends with the worm eating the leaves that act as shade for Jonah and showed us His mercy towards Jonah.He cared not only for the Jonah but also wants the city to be saved.

The story ends with ??? because He want us to ask ourselves are we the same? (Win-Win situation?) or like what Ivan said on the end times thingy-Calling God to wait so that more ppl can be saved or just wait and later enjoy paradise.

I also donno..the ending is for us to inter.p.rate(dono how spell =.=) ba?