There are times when we don't want God to do his work.

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We don't need to worry about what will happen in the future, we must plan and leave everything in God's hands and he will take care of us.

The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying: 2 Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim there the message that I will tell you. 3 And Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. And Nineveh was an extremely large city, three days' journey away. 4 And Jonah began to enter the city, a day's journey, and he preached, saying, In forty days Nineveh will be destroyed. 5 And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.
6 And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his seat, took off his garment, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and announced in Nineveh, by order of the king and his nobles, saying: Men and animals, oxen and sheep, do not taste anything; Do not give them food, nor drink water; 8 But let men and animals cover themselves with sackcloth, and cry loudly to God; and let every man turn from his evil way, from the plunder that is in his hands. 9 Who knows whether God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, and we will not perish?
10 And God saw what they did, that they turned from their evil way; and he repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Jonah 3.

To have a better context and understanding of this we can also read together in chapter four, Jonah after entering the belly of a fish has made the decision to commit to what God had asked of him, generally when we remember In the story of Jonah, we remember that at the end of the day Jonah obeyed because of the consequences of his previous disobedience, but it doesn't end there. The book concludes by telling us the reason why Jonah did not want to carry out what God had entrusted to him and God had rebuked him for that selfish feeling that he had.
Jonah was very afraid of those who were a threat to the Jews, the inhabitants of Nineveh, above all the fear was that they would repent of their evil ways and God would choose not to destroy him, there we see the reason why Jonah He wanted to see the Ninevites completely destroyed.

2 And he prayed to the LORD and said: Now, O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my land? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish; because I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, and of great mercy, and that you repent of evil.

Jonah 4:2

We as children of God are sometimes in the same position or with the same idea that Jonah had, on some occasions we choose not to do the will of God because of what we would obtain as a result even if we obeyed God, Sometimes our selfish desires or what we believe will happen in our human reasoning leads us to lose sight of the spiritual and not focus on our thoughts. But the reality is that if God calls us to act, we simply must put our body and take the step since we understand from the word of God that he will take care of all the results.
What is it that prevents us at this moment from obeying God and following his ways? Maybe we are too angry with someone to improve the relationship, maybe we are hurt in our relationship to allow God to work and restore everything. Many situations may be happening in which we are the ones who do not allow God to work for good since we are imposing our thoughts and our desires contrary to what God wants to do.
We must be fully aware and not let ourselves be dominated by these feelings, let us remember that feelings are fluctuating and if we take the situation to the rational level we will always have the answer that God allows everything for our good, he only wants to bless us with Any situation, no matter how strong the feeling we have, rationally suits us and it is healthier to obey the word of God by embracing his promises.
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