SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/07/2025 9:40 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-4“A Reliant Meekness”
Bible Reading and Meditation Reference: Jonah 3:9
Message of the verses: “Who knows, God may turn and relent and turn away from His burning anger so that we will not perish.”
I continue looking at this very important verse from the book of Jonah, and Lord willing I will finish up this section this morning.
As we been looking and commenting on this verse one thing is for sure and that is that salvation swept through the city as the Ninevites obeyed the king’s command. They responded to Jonah’s message with meekness, contrition, and also an acute awareness of their utter reliance on the mercy of God. In a single day “Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown’” (Jonah 3:4). On this day 600,000 people, from peasants to princes, joined together to loathe their sin and seek the Lord. Such widespread repentance can only be explained through the power of God. Think about that for a moment, for it is God through His Holy Spirit, and the prayers of the saints that can bring about such a revival, and it is my prayer that the Lord will bring about a great revival in our country and around the world before the church ends with the rapture of the Church. “Unsurprisingly, skeptics and critics have attempted to ascribe this mas repentance to natural events (such as military defeats, earthquakes, or an eclipse) rather than to God. But no natural cause can explain the supernatural reality of spiritual transformation. Only one explanation stands: God determined to save the entire population of the city in that generation, and He used a once rebellious prophet to draw a once rebellious people to Himself” writes John MacArthur.
He goes on to write “Every indication of the text suggests that this repentance was genuine. The Ninevites believed the message from God, and their works affirmed, and their hope centered on Him. The New Testament, moreover, provides a final confirmation of the genuineness of this repentance. In Matthew 12:4 1, the Lord Jesus used Nineveh as an illustration of true repentance, saying ‘The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because the repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.’ Jesus confirmed that Nineveh’s repentance was true on every account.
“Ultimately, the greatest miracle in the book of Jonah was not that the prophet was swallowed by a fish and survived. Though incredible, that deep sea miracle was far surpassed in number, power, and eternal consequence b the miracle on land—Nineveh’s repentance and faith in God. God saved the entire population of Assyria’s capital city, extending His grace and mercy to hundreds of thousands of Gentiles.”
Spiritual meaning form my life today: In my view the greatest miracle that has ever happened to me, along with my wife and all of our family is that on January 26, 1974 that God saved me from my sins and called me to be one of His children, and next it was my wife in April of 1974, then our two children, later on, and then all of our grandchildren after that. The greatest miracle in the McKenzie household! We even have one child in heaven due to the loss at pregnancy. I can’t wait to meet that child when I get to heaven.
My Steeps of Faith for Today: Trusting the Lord as we go through this very difficult time in our life as my wife is dealing with cancer and the effects of the chemo treatment, as we trust the Lord through this process.
11/7/2025 10:01 AM
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