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  May we be of the same mind.       [Romans 15:1-6]     These days, I am studying Jonah 4 during the Bible study for leaders.   The more I study, the more the lesson God gives me is, in one word, 'Yet not my will, but Your be done.’   God's servant, the prophet Jonah, was angry with God for turning His will to bring disaster on the people of Nineveh who repented and turned from their sins.   Why?   Jonah wanted his will to be done rather than God's will to be done.   What was Jonah’s will?   It was the destruction of the people of Nineveh.   Jonah wanted God to bring disaster on the people of Nineveh with his life.     Looking at Jonah like this, I thought about how to know the maturity of faith.   In a word, I think the maturity of faith is to put down my own will in front of the cross and submit to the will of the Lord.   In other words, a mature Christian prays the prayer Jesus offered t...