This short book reveals just as much about God’s “heart” as it does “God’s will”. God’s Word of judgment against sin pulsates with God’s heart to save sinners. God seeks the good of his enemies even while Jonah’s heart proves quite the opposite. For us today, where are we running from God and His Word?…
Jonah’s angry at God, and he’s angry that God forgave the Ninevites. Jonah is saying, “God, thank You for being patient with me, but I will never be patient with Nineveh. God, thank you for giving me a second chance. God, thank you for forgiving me. Thank you for forgiving my sin. Thank you for…
When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. Jonah 3:10 Jonah, known as the reluctant prophet, begins to go into Ninevah and does God’s work. Our God is a God…
Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. Jonah 2:1-2 When my life was fainting away, I remembered the Lord,…
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship…