If you believe you have done too much wrong and have run to an unreachable place, you are wrong. God can use all things and God can reach you.

If we will turn to God, he will give us more grace than we need.

If we are willing, God can use all things for good.

Nothing is able to separate us from the love of God.

• God uses people to communicate his will. 
• God is merciful. 
• God desires to save people, not to destroy people.
• God is active in creation.  

God is a pursuing God.

I fled Him down the nights and down the days

I fled Him down the arches of the years

I fled Him down the labyrinthine ways

Of my own mind, and in the midst of tears

I hid from him, and under running laughter.

-- Francis Thompson

Genesis 3:9

But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” 

Psalm 139:7–8

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 

Jonah 2:9

Salvation comes from the Lord.

God saved Jonah for a purpose and just maybe he has done the same for you.

Jonah 3:1

Then the Lord spoke to Jonah a second time…

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Jonah 3:2-4

“Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.” This time Jonah obeyed the Lord’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all. On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!”

Jonah 3:5

The people of Nineveh believed God’s message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow. 

Jonah 3:8–10

But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened. 

Jonah 3:10

When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened. 

Jonah 4:1

This change of plans greatly upset Jonah, and he became very angry. 

We serve a God of second chances and we are a people in need of them. 

God pursues us.

God gives us second chances.