Great Enough to Care | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | October 20, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The Lord said, should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh? |
| 0:06.6 | Jonah chapter 4, verses 10 through 11. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.3 | Great enough to care was written and read by James Banks. |
| 0:22.3 | Jonah chapter 4, verses 5 through 11. |
| 0:27.4 | Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, |
| 0:34.9 | sat in its shade, and waited to see what would happen to the city. |
| 0:41.1 | Then the Lord God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head, to ease his discomfort. |
| 0:51.0 | And Jonah was very happy about the plant. |
| 0:55.7 | But at dawn, the next day, God provided a worm which chewed the plant so that it withered. |
| 1:03.7 | When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah's head so that he grew faint. |
| 1:12.8 | He wanted to die and said, |
| 1:14.7 | It would be better for me to die than to live. |
| 1:19.1 | But God said to Jonah, |
| 1:21.1 | Is it right for you to be angry about the plant? |
| 1:25.4 | It is, he said, and I'm so angry I wish I were dead. |
| 1:30.2 | But the Lord said, you have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it |
| 1:36.3 | or make it grow. |
| 1:38.2 | It sprang up overnight and died overnight, and should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more |
| 1:47.8 | than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, |
| 1:54.6 | and also many animals? |
| 1:59.6 | Great enough to care. |
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