We read the full book of Jonah and sit with its hard question: will we love mercy when it lands on our enemies. From storm to fish to citywide repentance, the story moves toward God’s final question about compassion, and we let it land on our own hearts.
• historical setting of Jonah and Assyria
• Jonah’s flight, storm, and sailors’ fear of the Lord
• prayer from the depths and rescue
• terse preaching and Nineveh’s swift repentance
• God’s relenting and Jonah’s anger
• the plant parable exposing misplaced compassion
• the echo of Joel’s “Who knows?”
• invitation to receive mercy and extend it to others
Let’s be recipients of God’s mercy and let’s be reconciliators for others on others’ behalf to receive mercy from God as well
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