This whole passage is really all about the sovereign pursuit of God for those he loves. He will chase us as far as we run in our disobedience to rescue us from ourselves and bring us back into right relationship with Him. That is the nature of His covenant love and it's what He's been doing since the fall. He came looking for disobedient Adam in the garden and He came looking for disobedient Jonah in the sea, and here's where that scarlet thread of redemption weaves itself into Jonah's story--where we find Christ. Jonah was the disobedient prophet who refused to reach out to the lost, Jesus was the obedient prophet who came to seek and save the lost. Jonah fled the will of God on the sea, Jesus embraced the will of God in the garden. Jonah spent three days and nights in the belly of a fish for his own sin, Jesus spent three days and nights in the grave of death for the sin of others. Friends Jonah was always pointing us to Christ – the Greater Jonah. How will you respond?
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