The place where God sent his weak servant Jonah was the very stronghold of darkness. Nineveh represented the sin center of the world. Everything godless happened there; by all accounts its people were perverse, sadistic, and evil. The very fact that Jonah was even sent to such a place reveals that God’s capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin. And because of God, all the Ninevites turned from their wicked ways and placed their trust in his mercy. Everyone repented, from the least to the greatest—from the kids to the king.
I want to suggest that repentance like that is the solution for every social and relational disease in our world today. Wherever there’s a social or relational problem, it’s because repentance is missing.
- Tullian Tchividjian,
Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels
, p. 105
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