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  Jonah’s God (8)     [Jonah 4:1-11]                     The theologian and humanist, Dallas Willard, gives us words that make us think about "spiritual development and emotions" in his book “Renovation of the Heart”.  Among them I would like to share with you three precious lessons and applicable words: (1) ‘We should listen to the words of reason even when we express emotions or are caught up in emotions.’  Our lives must be driven by the facts rather than feelings,  We must live the Word-driven life.  Here, the Word-driven life is being led by the Word and is living by faith.  (2) ‘Self-control refers to the continuing ability to control self in order to accomplish the actions and personality that one chooses or decides, even if he doesn’t feel that way.  Self-control is we do things that we need to do even though we don’...

  Jonah’s God (6) [Jonah 3:1-10]           How should we view the crisis in our journey of life? When we encounter a crisis, we often think, "Why did this crisis come to me?" When we do that, we tend to blame on someone whom we think that brought crisis in our lives. And we tend to immerse in the crisis we faced in this thought and resentment. As a result, we don’t see others other than ourselves. And we are even more depressed in despair by falling into the swamp of crisis and losing the desire and hope of salvation. Is this the reaction of the crisis that God who controls the crisis wants from us? I don’t think so. I think crisis can be a good opportunity for us to experience His love in depth. Also, crisis can be the good opportunity for us to love those who are going through the similar crisis in their lives. If we don’t leave the Word of God in our crisis, then it can be a good opportunity for us to trust God and obey His Word so that His Word can bec...

  Jonah’s God (5)     [Jonah 2:1-10]                     Can you give thanks to God in times of sufferings?                 I think about Jonah's prayer.  Jonah eventually prayed in the stomach of the great fish in Jonah chapter 2 even though he had an opportunity to do so when he was disobeying the command of God, running away to the opposite direction of Nineveh where God wanted him to go and cry against it, and the ship that aboard was about to break up and when all the Gentile sailors were crying out to their own gods.  In such a hopeless circumstance that is in the stomach of the great fish Jonah surprisingly offered a prayer of thanksgiving instead of complaining.  How can we know this?  When we look at the Hebrew word of “prayed” in Jonah 2:1, it was used to express thanksg...

Jonah’s God (4)     [Jonah 2:1-10]                     According to the article ‘Difficulties in the job’ by Eland Company in Korea, the difficulty of the work that seems to be intricately intertwined can be summarized in two ways.  One is the difficulty of human relations and the other is the difficulty of work.  According to the results of the survey, the difficulty of human relations is about twice the difficulty of work.  Everyone wishes for a job without difficulty, but the pain in one's work may be the will of God and the price of sin (Internet).   There are six parts of the meaning of the job in God: (1) First is the means to understand the command of God and to accomplish the will of God; (2) Second is the means to train and succeed in God's way as Christians; (3) Third is the means of learning obedience as the children of God; (4) Fourth is the ...