If you want to see the glory of God, you need to see the grace of Jesus. For the God whom no-one has seen, has now made Himself known through Jesus becoming human. And in Jesus, we receive an abundance of grace that displays His glory.

There are two - and only two - possible responses to the light of Jesus Christ: either fully reject Him or fully receive Him. To those that receive Him, He gives the highest possible blessing, which is to make them children of God.

For a book written with the explicitly stated purpose, "that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name" (Jn. 20:23), the book starts how you might expect. A breathtaking presentation of the pre-existent 'Word' in the first five verses.

If God is the sovereign giver of mercy, who are we to hold it back from anyone? Jonah learns a lesson about his own love for mercy and his implicit need to be part of extending that mercy to others.

Is anyone beyond the mercy of God? Chapter 3 of Jonah shows how an unlikely city facing God's judgement ended up receiving God's mercy. And in doing so, became a sharp example for God's people of what humility and repentance looks like.

As Jonah is thrown into the ocean, he quickly recognises his utter despair and need of the mercy of God - mercy he did not want to show others. Through a surprising 'saviour', Jonah's life is spared. Once again, we find Jonah is us. We too are drowning in sin and unable to save ourselves. Jonah reminds us that salvation belongs to the Lord.

The surprising mercy of God is experienced even through the actions of Jonah. This reluctant prophet would do anything to withold mercy from his enemies, even if it cost him his life.