Share your cookies!

We always ask God why some of these nicest people in the world have not come to know God. And we also ask God why so many of the evil people in the world are still alive and kicking. Why God did not do His job of punishing them?

Jonah was just like us, he was angry with God that He chose to save the 120,000 people of Nineveh instead of punishing this city of evil people. Like us, Jonah feels that they do not deserve God’s mercy and God should destroy them as He had threatened them earlier.

God’s mercy is beyond our understanding and when we find it so hard to forgive, God can and will because His mercy is not weighed against our sinful acts but swept away by the sacrifice on His son on the cross.

Brother Lawrence told us a story at service today that was demonstrated the extent of our unmerciful nature. He tells us a story of a woman who shared a table with another gentleman and got angry with him because he was taking her bag of cookies without even asking her. Only after she has shouted at him and stormed out did she realize she was the one who was ‘stealing’ his cookies without asking!

How often we accused of others of the wrongdoing when all the time we are the one. How often we saw the unfairness of God’s love to people who deem undeserving but we never think how undeserving we are too.

The word that rings for me today…

SHARE YOUR COOKIES!

--Contributed by Pek Ya--