Often it escapes us when we are in misery that God is yet alive and well, and is My Rock and My Salvation. Indeed, He has armed us for the strife we face daily.
We all know the story of Jonah. How this man was given a command, and he decided to run 100 miles in the other direction. We can understand when we read the Book of Nahum, for instance. Understand that, and you know why Jonah did not want to go there.
The stage of history is large, and on it appear from time to time larger than life figures, brandishing swords, snorting violence, swaggering, boastful, fearsome. Nineveh was the capital of one such power, Assyria. Awesome , a world power, terrorizing the world. And Jonah was sent to tell them unless they repented, they would perish! So he went, finally, and Nineveh did repent. Much to Jonah’s dismay. He rather wanted to see them being destroyed.
But the story in the Bible brings our mind and our thoughts back to what is really going on. For quietly God is at work. So God sends Jonah along to remind us to see what is really going on here, that God works what He pleases, and when He wills.
So I said, You are armed. In the world you will have tribulation, but be not dismayed, I have overcome the world”. Jesus tells. And St. Paul reminds us that that we have the “full armor of God” including “The sword or the Spirit, which is the word of God”.
So we stand armed and ready. Let us just never forget that Sword of the Spirit, read it, learn it, learn to trust what it says, and God will bless.
GPD 11/25/09
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