Life

This is from the 40 Days for Life devotional for today. 

Jonah 49 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the bush?” And he said, “Yes, angry enough to die.” 10 Then the Lord said, “You are concerned about the bush, for which you did not labor and which you did not grow; it came into being in a night and perished in a night. 11 And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?”

God doesn’t value people and things like we do. Jonah loved a shade tree more than an entire city of sinful peo- ple. We love our dogs more than a ter- rorist. We love our cars more than a beggar on the side of the road. And sometimes, we love our money more than a child growing in a desperate teenager’s womb. But God isn’t like us. Genesis 1 tells us that humans were the capstone of God's creation.

-Devotional for Day 23, October 20, 2016Dennis DiMauro, Lutherans for Life