Faith Article - ‘My Ways, Higher than your Ways’ (Isaiah 55, verse 9)
‘I knew you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.’ (Jonah, chapter 4, verse 2) Lovely words, but not said in love. No, Jonah was furious… His instruction amounted to an act of betrayal: it was to travel 500 miles east from Galilee to Nineveh, the vast Assyrian capital (population 6 – 700,000) to warn Israel’s enemy of what they did not know: God was sending judgement on them. So he went 2000 miles