Gods Love towards Us is so Pure and Free. Unlike human love and thinking that is selfish, and based on good works. So when they see any brother/sister working below their expectations, they draw conclusion, or pass their judgment of condemnation, and expect God to do same to that brother/sister. But in reality, they dont know that Gods Love is pure and free, full of mercy. How? Lets look at the story of Jonah. In Jonah 4:1-11 CEB. When God spared Nineveh following Jonahs preaching. But Jonah thought this was utterly wrong, and he became angry. He prayed to the Lord , Come on, Lord ! Wasn’t this precisely my point when I was back in my own land? This is why I fled to Tarshish earlier! I know that you are a merciful and compassionate God, very patient, full of faithful love, and willing not to destroy. At this point, Lord , you may as well take my life from me, because it would be better for me to die than to live. The Lord responded, Is your anger a good thing? But Jonah went out from the city and sat down east of the city. There he made himself a hut and sat under it, in the shade, to see what would happen to the city. Then the Lord God provided a shrub, and it grew up over Jonah, providing shade for his head and saving him from his misery. Jonah was very happy about the shrub. But God provided a worm the next day at dawn, and it attacked the shrub so that it died. Then as the sun rose God provided a dry east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint. He begged that he might die, saying, It’s better for me to die than to live. God said to Jonah, Is your anger about the shrub a good thing? Jonah said, Yes, my anger is good—even to the point of death! But the Lord said, You ‘pitied’ the shrub, for which you didn’t work and which you didn’t raise; it grew in a night and perished in a night. Yet for my part, can’t I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than one hundred twenty thousand people who can’t tell their right hand from their left, and also many animals? This same love of God is still available today through Christ Jesus, and is Free. He is the reason for this season and All season. Celebrate Him. Merry Christ beloved. Remember, His name is Jesus/Yeshua. Source@ rememberhisnameisjesus/2014/12/pure-and-free.html
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 22:57:40 +0000
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