Jonah has been on a journey with God. God told Jonah to go to Nineveh and preach against it. Jonah has gone the other direction. But God has shown relentless grace toward his wayward prophet and in the third chapter of Jonah we see his prophet proclaim judgment on the city. The news of God’s judgment runs through the city and all the inhabitants repent. They call out to the Lord and turn from their evil ways. Chapter 3 ends with God relenting from the disaster because he saw how the people turned away from their evil ways.

Now you would think that this would be a great victory for Jonah. You would think that Jonah would be so excited to see the people of Nineveh turn from evil and cry out to the Lord. How exciting to see the turn around the word of the Lord caused through Jonah’s proclamation. But it was not good to Jonah. Open your copies of God’s word and read the first four verses of Jonah 4…

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