Let's look at Jonah today. In Luke 11:29-32 I was reading about Jonah. I know, I know, there's a whole book of Jonah, but this is where I was reading and I was in Luke first which took me to Jonah. God uses Jonah's story in the Bible to say a lot to us about the heart of God and the mission He has for His people. God's closing words in the Book of Jonah to Jonah are very much God's heart in John 3:16. What is that? That is God wants all people to be saved and none to be lost and left behind. In Luke we read the words of Jesus saying to the multitudes that have shown up to hear Him:
This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah, the prophet. For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.
Skip down to verse 32 now:
The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.
Does this generation repent? Will our generation repent? Will you repent?
The Word of the Lord is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God never changes. (Hebrews 13:8 and Malachi 3:6)
John the Baptist cries out to this generation and to us today, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29)
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