Jonah 4:1-2 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

Jonah knew God. Jonah didn’t want to obey God and was forced into a situation in which Jonah knew for a certainty, the end result. God would be God, gracious and merciful, with or without him. So Jonah gets angry. This is how God answers Jonah’s anger.

Jonah 4:10-11 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

These are the last verses of the book of Jonah. There is no further conversation, no explanation of Jonah’s reaction to God’s answer, no view of Jonah ever coming to repent of his anger with the Lord. It is an unsettled issue.

Philippians 2:13-16 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Are you okay Jonah?

1 Thessalonians 5:18-24 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

Yesterday I spoke to the issues of influence, being under the tutor with respect to workman like effort. There has to come a time when the Holy Spirit takes you beyond these tutors and begins an earnest work in you. This is not to say that what some of your tutors said is wrong or bad, but the Holy Spirit will instruct you in truth. Hold on to what is good. Let the rest go without judgment or ranker.

At this time in your walk, being led by the spirit, embrace the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Proving all things requires a check in your spirit, to allow the Holy Spirit to determine the right course of action because He knows the will of God. He is God.

Philippians 1:6, 10-11 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.