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Yet [*/+/^] : 27.225 MHz, Some Final Measures; Poem On Jonah 4:11
God, Whom you serve, Prophet Jonah, you also tried to spurn:
Who is salvific Love (along with Compassion and Pity),
Who spared Nineveh, that great and populous city,
and six thousand within its walls that could not discern.
To them, also, has come God's Merciful Grace---
(not withstood by the righteous rage with which you, Jonah, burn)---
Good News, by Faith received among them all in that time and place.
Starward
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Compassion and Justice go
Compassion and Justice go hand in hand, the rightness of God that is embodied in righteousness. One without the other is uncharitable and injustice. I guess Jonah learned this the hard way. But that is the way of it for all legalists and the religiously encrusted ones. The spirit of Torah and not its letter is the living Spirit. But as in Judges, everyone does as we see fit and right by our own reckoning which thusly becomes our undoing. We all of us need a Saviour!
here is poetry that doesn't always conform
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Thank you so much for
Thank you so much for reminding me of that last verse in the book of Judges. I think that verse is the key to Jonah's attitude. Jonah fascinates me, because he was a runner the way I have been, spiritually and metaphysically, a runner as well. I thank you for that comment!
Starward