Covenant Reformed News – February 2015 • Volume XV, Issue 10
This exegetical article expounds on Jonah 4:10-11, exploring God's gentle but firm instruction to the prophet regarding divine compassion and sovereignty. Through careful analysis of Jonah's resistance and God's providential care, the author draws practical lessons about submission to God's will and the proper response to His gracious governance over all creation.
The Lessons of Jonah’s Gourd (1) After God destroyed with a worm the gourd under which Jonah had sheltered from the sun, He expostulates with the huffing prophet in what are probably the least understood and most intriguing verses of the book: “Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that...