DAILY?READINGS: Exodus 19; Psalms 58; Acts 10:24-33
And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time. Jonah 3:1
Jonah had been disobedient. He had refused to carry out God’s commission to preach the message of impending doom to the Ninevites. How did God react to Jonah’s disobedience? He could have ended his service permanently in the violence of the storm or in the belly of the great fish. But our God is a pardoning God, and we read “The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time.” God was prepared to salvage Jonah from his disobedience and to give him a second chance in His service. We see this again in the apostle Peter who failed miserably and yet the Lord recommissioned him to lead the great Gospel surge beginning at Pentecost. He is a God of grace. —W. H. Burnett
Who is a pardoning God like Thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free? —Samuel Davies