The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, ‘Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’ So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, ‘Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!’ And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth. When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: ‘By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water. Human beings and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands. Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.’ When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it. (Jonah 3:1-10, NRSV)
Jonah went to the Ninevites and told them that the way they were living was not how God wanted them to live.
He was one who took the word of God to the people of Ninevah.
And the people of Ninevah listened. And they heard the word of the Lord and they repented. Even the king of Ninevah removed his robe and covered himself with sackcloth and ashes. He repented of his evil ways and set his sights on God.
That is what God seeks for all of us. He wants for us to turn from our own selfish understanding to focusing on Him.
When God sees this, as He did in Ninevah He turns from anger to and turns to love!
So turn from your own desires to following God.
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