I appreciate warnings. But they
are positively negative. For example DO NOT microwave an egg without cracking
it open. Or how would one know that there are peanuts in peanut M&M’s (or in
the regular ones for that matter) without a warning. The sunshield for my car
warns me not to drive with it in place – who da thunk it? Clothing will have
warnings and directions on how to wash and dry them properly.
When I was young I experimented
with new culinary experiences. One day I decided to poach an egg. All one
needed do was boil it, right? I took a pot out of the cupboard, put some water
in it and brought it to a boil. Then I cracked the egg open and dropped it in.
It did not come out like the ones at the diner. The egg whites became all
stringing and weird. After I strained the egg remnants out of the water I put
them on my plate. It resembled watery boiled spider webs with a hardened yellow
yoke blob. A very unappetizing dish indeed. No body warned me it would come out
this way.
I think most people appreciate a
warning before something awful could happen, yet they fuss about negative
messages when the preacher preaches against sin and warns about hell. God uses
negative messages to achieve positive results.
Jonah entered deeply into enemy
territory and began to preach. The message God had him preach sounds pretty
negative. Jonah didn’t give them a way out. But God was at work in their hearts
because they knew what to do and believed this stranger delivering a negative
message.
“So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the
LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. And Jonah
began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty
days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.” Jonah 3:3-4.
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