The Moral Lesson From Story Of Jonah - Dr. Jordan B Peterson

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[J-T]

God is the greatest and most masterful architect. Just as a bathroom has multiple purposes, from shaving, showering, brushing one’s teeth, relieving oneself, applying cosmetics, relaxing in a tub, getting a good read in where you might otherwise be too distracted, or even finding solitude and hearing the Lord speak the best ideas to you that you would otherwise never have had the calm to hear in a much louder environment, so is the way that the Lord designs all situations circumstances and occurrences. His teachings carry multiple purposes and meanings for our good in helping us to understand His Word, His commandments and His heart.

Jonah’s story carries more than one lesson. Dr. Peterson’s interpretation about refusing to follow the paths that God sets for us (and the resulting effects of disobedience) is spot on. And so are the commenters’ observations about God’s mercy. But I for one feel also led by the Holy Spirit to add another lesson that the story of Jonah teaches.

In Jonah’s prayer while in the belly of the fish, he says “those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them”. (Jonah 2:8)

In the Bible, Jonah’s idols were his anger, his unforgiveness, his thirst to see others punished, and his desire to see the city and the people of Nineveh destroyed for its wickedness.

Like the other commenters said, Jonah knew that God would be merciful to the city and its people, and that they would be saved from destruction. This was God’s will. But Jonah placed his own will over that of the Lord.

Anything that you place above yielding to the will of God becomes your idol, intended or not.

Jonah did not feel that the people deserved forgiveness or to be saved. So he chose disobedience over submitting to God, and in doing so, he made these things his idols, turning himself away from the love of God.

But even in landing him overboard and in the belly of the fish, God showed his own mercy and love towards Jonah, and did not destroy him for his own transgressions.

Seeing evil people “get away with it” honestly sucks, especially in our capacities of limited human beings with only an eye-level understanding of what’s going on around us. And I can even further add, that being wronged by others can hurt and torment us massively, especially when the situation is so grossly unfair, yet we are helpless to do anything about those who have caused the pain.

But the Lord has said that vengeance is His. When we seek to avenge ourselves or to withhold others from receiving God’s mercy and forgiveness, we make vengeance and disobedience our idols. And I even dare to go a step further to say that in so doing, we make ourselves our own idols over God and over the will of God.

When Jonah went away to be alone and sulk after witnessing the city of Nineveh being saved, God allowed a great plant to grow above him, granting him shelter and shade from the sun. And Jonah was happy. But when God sent a worm the next morning to eat away at the tree, causing it to be destroyed, Jonah was grieved.

And then God said to him in so many words, you are grieved about the tree being destroyed, and you did not put it there or tend to it. What about the 100 thousand people and animals in Nineveh?

Bottom line, people are God’s creation. He created us and he nurtures us. But people are evil, and corrupted by sin. Yet we are so corrupt that we are often not able to see the evil in our own hearts, only the evil in the hearts of others.

But God is good, and He knows us all intimately. Better than we know ourselves. We have a limited view and understanding of ourselves and others. But the Lord sits in the cockpit. We are His creation with which He will do as He pleases. And the Bible says that He does not desire that anyone should perish.

And what that ultimately means is, He will allow some people (probably even some who most would consider the vilest of them all) to hear the Gospel, accept the truth and be saved. We may never understand it, but if hearing the truth of our sinful nature and our need for a Savior can soften even the hardest of hearts, this goes to show that GOD IS GOD and His power and mercy exceed all human measure.

This was a long one, but I know that God has spoken these words to me, as I struggle agonizingly with anger and unforgiveness myself, so clearly these are not things that my flesh wants to hear, admit or even acknowledge. This is how I know that the Spirit of God is real, as He shows us things in the spirit that we could never conceptualize on our own, whether practically or by human standards of morality.

But He is the Potter, and we are the clay, and what He requires of us, with fear and trembling, we must submit and obey.

Amen.

[morgant.dulaman]

The other big thing: God sparing Ninevah despite Joseph's anger and express desire He consume it in wrath is a reminder that God has the right to forgive those we would rather see punished.

If God had the right to forgive His rebellious prophet, then He has the right to spare a city full of sinners and tyrants. If He has the right to raise up a vine to shade his bitter and ungrateful servant, then He has the right to cause the sun to shine on men and women who are lascivious, mischief-making, and even cruel and oppressive.

And why does God do this at all?

Because it's who He is.

It is who He is to love His creation and to offer every person on this earth many chances to repent.

It is who He is to offer every opportunity of repentance, even to the last minute, so that a city of oppressors might repent of their deeds and be saved.

It is who He is to condescend from Heaven itself, take on the flesh of a man, and bear humiliation, torture, and death in order to provide the perfect sacrifice and reconcile man to Himself so we may love and be loved perfectly, and finding life beyond death and know that in that atonement, the shame of our past deeds are washed away before Him forever.

As Jonah had to learn and as all who call themselves sons, daughters, and servants of Him today (therefore bearing His name and image to a world that doesn't know him) must understand, it is incumbent on us to reflect God's goodness, and that comes with an understanding that while we should want to see justice done in retribution to an act of evil, we should also want to see all mankind saved, or if they will not, then at least be given the same opportunity as we.

We should let God's word, his spirit, and what He has done for us transform us, so we reflect Him, even if as humans, we must do so imperfectly on this side of heaven, and that must involve at least having the willingness to pray for and act with God's love to those we think deserve nothing but wrath, in hopes that perhaps our enemies may yet become brothers and sisters in the One who loved us first.

[gavinwilliams]

That's what I was thinking. It's a nice moral if you cut off the end of the story like he has done. If you read it all then it is simply about how merciful God is. Not that I'm religious.

[BrassicaRappa]

What a hilarious misreading of a very short story. Jonah SAYS why he didn't want to go - he knew good would be merciful in the end. The end of the book is Jonah running off to the desert to sulk after God spared the city. "Well I guess I might as well just die then!" 😂


It's a REALLY short story. Just read it for yourself!