I highly recommend Timothy
Keller’s book The Prodigal Prophet, which is focuses on the story of Jonah.
The following section from
the book describes Jonah ... and me. I was challenged, and I hope you will be too.
“So
Jonah had a problem with the job he was given. But he had a bigger problem with
the One who gave it to him. Jonah concluded that because he could not see any
good reasons for God’s command, there couldn’t be any. Jonah doubted the
goodness, wisdom, and justice of God.
We
have all had that experience. We sit in the doctor’s office stunned by the
biopsy report. We despair of ever finding decent employment after the last lead
has dried up. We wonder why the seemingly perfect romantic relationship—the one
we always wanted and never thought was possible—has crashed and burned. If
there is a God, we think he doesn’t know what he is doing! Even when we turn
from the circumstances of our lives to the teaching of the Bible itself, it seems,
to modern people especially, to be filled with claims that don’t make much
sense.
When
this happens we have to decide—does God know what’s best, or do we? And the
default mode of the unaided human heart is to always decide that we do. We doubt
that God is good, or that he is committed to our happiness, and therefore we
can’t see any good reasons for something God says or does, we assume that there
aren’t any.” (pp 15-16)
We can trust God. We can
trust his goodness, his wisdom, and his justice. We may not always understand his ways,
but we can trust his character.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
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