Hello friends!



Hope you all had a great new year celebration and 2026 has been treating you very well!



I had a very random thought and if I mention that as an inspiration it would not be wrong! a random thought that has helped me to understand that whatever our understanding of anything for now will not be necessarily a correct understanding and even if we are correct in our understanding, that very understanding itself will be not right in someone else's view.



I am talking of Jonah here!! When we read this particular chapter on Jonah, when we read it the first thing that hit our mind and heart is that he should have listened to GOD, not only he has not listened to him but he was angry on GOD when GOD has taken away the only shade that he had, the tree/ plant/ creeper under which he was resting while being angry on GOD.



The other day I had, rather, a different thought. Put yourselves in his shoes and think for a while,

You are being told to declare that since there is a lot of sin and a lot of wrong doing and as a punishment GOD will finish the generation but then it doesnt happen!!



What then? Yes, the city repented and repented in a manner that GOD had to change his plans, so, is GOD not correct?



Can GOD be in anyway not correct??



But, then think of the state of a person who declared the result but that was not to be, should we say that GOD's actions have given him bad name, will you ever be in a position to again have faith in the inspiration of GOD.



We all will be doubting whether the inspiration that we got is from GOD himself or not?



So, in a way Jonah, my assumption, has gotten a bad name or may be has gotten a name of wrong prophet because whatever he is said hasn't happened in that generation. And during such phase he got emotinally connected to a plant which provided his shade, may be, thinking that atleast this plant cares for me and no one else.



And that very attachment was taken away from him the next moment.



How would you feel? Will you not be having an angry emotion?



Yes, we all agree that at the end GOD was proven right, actually GOD doesn't need to be proven right he doesn't need any proofs!!



Whatever GOD does he does that with a thought of teaching his disciple and Jonah at the end got his learning also but, we can't say that Jonah was wrong in having angst against GOD.



Lets not be a judge of the men, matters, materials, moments!!