Privileged Partner
“And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.” Jonah 3:4-5 NKJV http://bible.com/114/jon.3.4-5.nkjv The phase of challenges and difficulties in life and ministry is often designed to a transient moment of useful character formation, rather than a perceived means for useless character deformation. Otherwise, divine partnership is mostly a call to celebration of success and breakthrough, especially for those who are called according to God's purpose. For example, what is spectacular in Jonah's message presentation "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"? Obviously, the most significant part of the message is the partnership between God and Jonah, especially after a turbulent period of character formation in the belly of whale. Although ...