In Jonah 1, we meet the Israelite prophet who preferred to flee rather than obey the Lord’s call to do something new, surprising, and unpleasant, namely, go preach to the Ninevites, the mortal enemies of the Israelites. However, God did not give up on Jonah, or, as we shall see, on the Ninevites, or on us.
Because humans were dead in our sins, the only possible solution was for God to make us alive because of his grace.
Abraham’s example proves that the only way to be right with God is through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works, ritual, law, or...
God fulfills his plan against human opposition and even through human suffering.
