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Jonah Daily Devotion (Jan. 6)

We are so grateful for our clergy and elected lay leaders who have provided daily devotionals to our church family since mid-March. In a demonstration of appreciation, we are giving them a few days off! We invite you to participate in the scripture devotional below.


Jonah 4: 1-4 (NIV)

Jonah’s Anger at the Lord’s Compassion

But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

But the Lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”