We serve a God who is merciful and who allows His children many chances to learn His ways and be obedient to them. Jonah was a good man and a likely associate of the prophet Amos. he was not happy with this assignment and “fled from the presence of the Lord” (Jonah 1:10)Jonah quickly fled in the opposite direction from Nineveh, toward the seaport of Joppa, where he boarded a ship headed for what is probably present-day Spain. But the Lord gave Jonah a second chance.

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