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Jonah chapter 4 verses 10 and 11.

And the Lord said, you pity the plant for which you did not labor nor did you make it grow which came

into being in a night and perished in a night and should not I pity Nineveh that great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left and also much cattle.

And thus ends the book of Jonah

with the Prophet exceedingly displeased and angry that God had brought salvation to Nineveh, that God had saved Nineveh from the wrath they deserved and the Prophet Jonah is upset goes out of the city

sits down there under the shade and God appoints this plant to come up over Jonah to save him from

discomfort in the sun and Jonah was exceedingly glad about the plant. But then when God

appointed a worm to attack the plants that withered? Jonah was so upset.

And God says, in the verses we just read,

Are you pity the plant?

A plant.

Should I not pity Ninnava, people, hundreds of thousands of people,

whom I've created in my image, whom I love, and I desire to save.

Like there's so much temptation at this point

just to be very critical of Jonah and obviously Jonah was in the wrong here.

But let's look at our own lives.

How often are you and I consumed with, passionate about things in this world that

ultimately don't matter.

We value plants and possessions and sports and entertainment and

petty comforts and trivial concerns

and we can get so worked up over these things

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