“But God said to Jonah, ‘Do you do well to be angry?’ (Jonah 4:9) Jonah was in such a state that he even took God to task. It must be that God knew his son, Jonah. Is it that Jonah feared God but found himself struggling in a moment that the Lord required his obedience? Yet, the Lord was patient with him, so very patient. He is also patient with us. He knows us, every hair on our head and when we struggle, he does not judge us but poses that same question, “ Do you do well to be angry?” Then he stays right by our side until we sort it through and we get it right. “Anger is not always or necessarily sinful, but it has such a tendency to run wild that whenever it displays itself, we should be quick to question its character, with this inquiry, "Doest thou well to be angry?" Charles Spurgeon “Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23-24) GiGi❤️
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