When we first meet Jonah, we are told that God calls him to deliver a message to Nineveh. He is commissioned to share God’s message with the enemies of God’s people. Jonah’s commission becomes an existential crisis. The implications of God’s love leads him to hop on the first ship he can find to Tarshish, the farthest place from Nineveh he can get. But even here, God’s love cannot be outrun.