​75. Like Jonah

My daughter wants nothing more than for her friends to know Jesus.

I’m not sure if I’ve been cut from this same cloth.

I think sometimes being older and knowing the world like a VCR you’ve dissected and categorized into parts makes you a little cynical.

The world wants hell? Let them have it.

But Jesus said to enter the kingdom of heaven like little children. And what child doesn’t have an inclination to share goodness with their friends?

I have to release myself of the judgment I think all people deserve because in doing so, I forget the judgment intended for me that God has extinguished in His infinite mercy.

Like Jonah, it’s easy to hold onto the grace that God asks for us to bestow on those we deem undeserving. And like Jonah, it’s all too easy to drown and meet the death God has not granted us.