Read Today's Passage
As I read this passage, I think back to Jesus' words of "If you are not for Me you are against Me" (Mark 9) as God here states to Nineveh that He is against them. For good reason of course, but it kind of ruins the Americanized picture of either a God who is always nice to humanity (like Santa Claus, He supposedly exists to make life easy for us), or a God who just sits back and watches. I like that God gets into the action here. It shows that His justice needs to be met, that He will not tolerate sinfulness. And yet, He warns Nineveh that it is coming. There is no "unless you do this" clause though. At least not yet. God simply tells Nineveh that their days are numbered and that number is just about up. He paints a graphic story of how Nineveh will go down, leaving no mercy.
Have you ever see God in this light?
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