梦游圣经66本书

📅 2025年12月06日

【拿4:10】耶和华说：“这蓖麻不是你栽种的，也不是你培养的，一夜发生，一夜干死，你尚且爱惜；

【拿4:11】何况这尼尼微大城，其中不能分辨左手右手的有十二万多人，并有许多牲畜，我岂能不爱惜呢？”

✨ 一、神借蓖麻树揭露我们心里的狭窄

蓖麻树：

• 不是约拿栽种

• 不是约拿培养

• 一夜出现，一夜枯干

• 完全是恩典、完全不在人的掌控

约拿为蓖麻树欢喜，也为它枯萎愤怒——

他把短暂的舒适看得比人的生命还重要。

神正在问我们：

• 你是否太在意自己的好处？

• 是否因一点点损失就动怒？

• 是否把“顺利、舒适、遮荫”看得比人的灵魂更重要？

蓖麻树是暂时的，

但神关心的是永恒的。

✨ 二、神的心远超过人有限的心

神说：“尼尼微十二万人……我岂能不爱惜？”

尼尼微的百姓：

• 许多人是无法分辨左右手的人（幼童、无知、未明白道德的人）

• 甚至连城中的牲畜，神都眷顾

这是神的心：

• 怜悯胜过审判

• 拯救胜过毁灭

• 宽广胜过人的狭窄

约拿只看他们的罪应不应该受罚，

神却看 他们能不能得救。

✨ 三、默想：你的蓖麻树是什么？

今天神也问我们：

• 我是否太看重自己的“遮荫”？

• 我是否把短暂的利益当作永恒的重要？

• 我是否希望别人受惩罚，却忘记神曾怜悯我？

蓖麻树会枯干，

但神的怜悯不会枯干。

愿神扩张我们的心，使我们看见祂的怜悯，而不是自己的得失。

✨ 四、祷告

主啊，愿祢的心成为我的心。

扩张我的眼界，不再被短暂的事困住，

让我看见祢看见的，爱祢所爱的。

教我怜悯人、祝福人，

不轻易发怒，存丰盛的慈爱。

奉主耶稣基督的名，阿们。

📌 “God’s Mercy Surpasses Human Narrowness” — Jonah 4:10–11

📅 6 December 2025

Jonah 4:10 — But the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight.

Jonah 4:11 — And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

✨ 1. God Uses the Plant to Reveal the Narrowness in Our Hearts

The plant:

• Was not planted by Jonah

• Was not cultivated by Jonah

• Grew up overnight and withered overnight

• Was pure grace, completely outside of Jonah’s control

Jonah rejoiced over the plant, yet became angry when it withered—

he valued temporary comfort more than human life.

God is asking us:

• Are you too concerned about your own benefit?

• Do you get angry over small losses?

• Do you value “comfort, smoothness, shade” more than the souls of people?

The plant is temporary,

but what God cares about is eternal.

✨ 2. God’s Heart Is Far Greater Than Our Limited Hearts

God says: “There are 120,000 people in Nineveh… should I not care for them?”

The people of Nineveh:

• Many could not distinguish between right and left (children, the ignorant, those who lack moral understanding)

• God even cares for the animals in the city

This is God’s heart:

• Mercy over judgment

• Salvation over destruction

• A heart far wider than human narrowness

Jonah looked only at whether their sin deserved punishment;

God looked at whether they could be saved.

✨ 3. Reflection: What Is Your Plant?

Today, God also asks us:

• Do I value my own “shade” too much?

• Do I treat temporary benefits as if they were eternal?

• Do I wish for others to be punished, forgetting that God once had mercy on me?

The plant will wither,

but God’s mercy will never wither.

May God enlarge our hearts so that we see His mercy,

not merely our own gains and losses.

✨ 4. Prayer

Lord, may Your heart become my heart.

Enlarge my vision so I am no longer trapped by temporary things.

Help me see what You see, and love whom You love.

Teach me to show mercy and to bless others—

to be slow to anger and rich in steadfast love.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.