Unfortunately, there's a condition to the workings of God, you will never experience certain components of Him that you fail to give to those that surround you. How then can you know Him as a God of unending love if you yourself fail to love those that surround you? You will not touch a part of Him that He knows you cannot extend to those He connects to you!
Jesus said, "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father" (Jonh 14:9). What do people say when they see you? When they hear you? What do people say when they see how you treat those around you? What do people say when they see how you treat those that have fallen short?
Can you say, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father?" as well? We have become judges in the place of God and like as Jonah questioned, "Why send me to condemn a people that you will only turn around to forgive?" (Jonah 4:2). The mercies of God cannot be controlled or blocked by personal likeness or selfishness. The Bible says, "A broken spirit and a contrite heart you have not despised oh God" (Psalm 51:17).
The psalmist recognised a vulnerability in God a kind of man God cannot turn away from. A man whose posture attracts His attention. He is broken. He is contrite. Not in public but in a place of "secret dwelling." Could it be that the world has believed that our God is so unloving because we ourselves are terribly unloving to each other?
Yet there's a system mysterious to men that will cause even God to change His mind concerning His decisions. We serve a God that will use the very same men we feel are undeserving just to show us we have absolutely no say in how He chooses and how He sends.
Oh Jonah, when will you realise that Nineveh can receive the same mercy that you received in the belly of the fish? As He sends us, may God assist us!
