JONAH 3
How gracious God is to give us another opportunity after we have failed Him (Ps. 103:8–14)! God is as much concerned about the worker as He is the work. He could have sent somebody else to preach to Nineveh, but Jonah would have missed out on the lessons he needed to learn. God wants to work in us as well as through us.
How gracious God is to lost sinners! Why would a holy God give the vicious Ninevites an opportunity to repent? Because He is “not willing that any should perish” (2 Pet. 3:9) but “desires all men to be saved” (
How gracious God is to bless the ministry of an imperfect servant! Jonah did not love the people he preached to, yet God used his message to bring the whole city to repentance. There is power in God’s Word; it can convict and convert the greatest of sinners.