In Jonah 4 v 6-7 God prepared a gourd/vine to cover Jonah’s head and relieve his grief and Jonah was exceedingly glad. However, in the morning the LORD God prepared a worm that smote the gourd and it withered and when the wind and sun came, it beat on Jonah’s head and he was exceedingly angry.
God blesses us with things and people to cover our heads, our needs, necessities, shame and relieve our grief, worries, troubles and sorrows. All God’s blessings are for our benefit and they make us glad.
But to teach us a lesson, to help us grow, to enable us to understand, to encourage us to focus and to strengthen our faith; God attimes takes the blessings away and we are left exposed, in need, discouraged and affected.
Let us learn to accept and be thankful to God when He blesses and when He removes the blessing because His ways aren’t our ways and His thoughts aren’t our thoughts (Isaiah 55 v 8) as He has great plans for our lives (Jeremiah 29v11) and He will never allow a challenge above our faith to come our way (1 Cor 10v 13).
Have a blessed day and remember, the gourd may be removed but God isn’t removed. He is still God and will never leave nor forsake you (Duet 31 v 6) because He is the ever present help in times of need (Psalm 46 v 1).
(….Mission Brothers)
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