Pray the Word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Jonah chapter 4 verse 11.

And should I not 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?

What a picture. I want to, I want to get a hone in on one word in Jonah chapter 4 verse 11.

God says, should not I pity Nineveh? What a picture of the

pity of God and the contrast between God's pity, God's compassion, God's love, God's

care for Nineveh and Jonah's pity for himself. When you read Jonah chapter 4 and you see this

plant that raises up to help Jonah be comfortable from the sun and then God takes it away.

Jonah is writhing in self pity and it just causes me to look at my life and ask the question,

do I live and I in what ways am I prone to self pity instead of living in light of the pity

of God and what ways am I prone to focus on myself and to complain about this or that in my life?

A lack of comfort specifically in this way or that way instead of focusing on what

rouses pity in the heart of God and the world around me. Not that God doesn't care about the details

of my life or your life, that's part of the beauty. He does pity us and at the same time he has

pity for people who don't know him who need his grace and his mercy and we and it

changes the way we live when we take our eyes off ourselves and we live with that kind of pity,

compassion, love for others isn't this the second greatest commandment to love others as what?

As ourselves, God, we praise you for your pity for your pity upon us for the way you have saved us

from our sins for the way you've provided for us in our lives. We praise you for your kindness,

gentleness, mercy, compassion, love and pity toward us. All glory be to your name for your pity,

for us and for all people. So God help us to see as you see and to live accordingly, to live in

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