Brokenness
Jerry Watts
Jonah 2:1-10
- In the year 2000 when I stepped away from ministry because of health issues, my first cousin gave to me a book by M. R. Dehaan of the Radio Bible Class entitled, ''Broken Things.'' Were I to have the financial resources, I would buy every person I know a copy of this book. This book reveals a Biblical and God-honoring view of this thing called brokenness.
- Think about it: In the physical world we buy things, they break, so we throw them away. In the relational (or social) world, we gain friends, they break (I.E. character, morals, etc), and sadly, we throw them away (to find some more). In the church world, we gain new members, they break (I.E. fall off the 'wagon' in some way) and we dismiss them.
- Interestingly enough, what we call trash, God calls treasure. What we tend to reject, God tends to remake. While we throw away broken things - God touches broken things and uses them.
- In fact, it has been rightly said that God cannot use us until we are broken. James 4:6 says, ''God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.'' Candidly, God has little use for a prideful person or people. He will do to us whatever is required to break us down.
- Tonight from the life of Jonah, we see God performing a painful work which will ultimately change Jonah's direction or mind. It is my belief that Jonah 2 exists as a warning for us.
- In verse one of chapter one God tells Jonah to 'get up and go to Nineveh.'' Jonah got up and went, but as we have said before, he went the wrong direction. He had too much pride to go to those folks at Nineveh. He didn't like them, they were from the wrong side of the tracks, and what if they actually got saved; he would have to spend an eternity with them. Jonah felt that HE should control HIS OWN life, He was an adult, He alone should decide where He went, who He spoke to, and what He would say. I shiver just thinking about this concept.
- Before we walk through a few tho ...
Jerry Watts
Jonah 2:1-10
- In the year 2000 when I stepped away from ministry because of health issues, my first cousin gave to me a book by M. R. Dehaan of the Radio Bible Class entitled, ''Broken Things.'' Were I to have the financial resources, I would buy every person I know a copy of this book. This book reveals a Biblical and God-honoring view of this thing called brokenness.
- Think about it: In the physical world we buy things, they break, so we throw them away. In the relational (or social) world, we gain friends, they break (I.E. character, morals, etc), and sadly, we throw them away (to find some more). In the church world, we gain new members, they break (I.E. fall off the 'wagon' in some way) and we dismiss them.
- Interestingly enough, what we call trash, God calls treasure. What we tend to reject, God tends to remake. While we throw away broken things - God touches broken things and uses them.
- In fact, it has been rightly said that God cannot use us until we are broken. James 4:6 says, ''God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.'' Candidly, God has little use for a prideful person or people. He will do to us whatever is required to break us down.
- Tonight from the life of Jonah, we see God performing a painful work which will ultimately change Jonah's direction or mind. It is my belief that Jonah 2 exists as a warning for us.
- In verse one of chapter one God tells Jonah to 'get up and go to Nineveh.'' Jonah got up and went, but as we have said before, he went the wrong direction. He had too much pride to go to those folks at Nineveh. He didn't like them, they were from the wrong side of the tracks, and what if they actually got saved; he would have to spend an eternity with them. Jonah felt that HE should control HIS OWN life, He was an adult, He alone should decide where He went, who He spoke to, and what He would say. I shiver just thinking about this concept.
- Before we walk through a few tho ...
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