How many double standards are present in our culture? How many have we grown up with but never give much thought how they have impacted us? For me, I like to hang out with people just like me. I am reluctant to reach out to those with different standards and backgrounds. I have more questions than answers but I’m quite certain that following Christ often involves denying our feelings of wanting to fit in and win a popularity competition. Jonah may have had a lot of reasons for his reluctant response. Jonah may not have been respected by his constituents for obeying God immediately. Jonah’s distaste for Babylon and Nineveh could have been out right hatred obeying God was out of his comfort zone, with similar issues in our culture.
“The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society.” - Jerry Bridges, Respectable Sins
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