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Jonah is a figure of such contemporary features that he could walk out of one of our churches. Moreover, Jonah reminds us that the chief characteristic of redeemed people is not that they never sin, for sadly we still do, but that they are ready to repent of their sin when reminded of God’s grace. The prophet Micah lived several generations later than Jonah. Whereas God called Jonah to cry out...

naturally suffers from the pretension that he can solve his own problem.… When the sailors tried to save the ship by their nautical skill, Jonah slept. All these aids had to be shattered, all solutions blocked, and man’s possibilities hopelessly outclassed by the power of the challenge, to cause Jonah to return to God.3 The contrast between the call of the ship captain and the response of God is revealing. The captain cried, “Arise, call out to your god!” (Jonah 1:6). But God sent Jonah down, not
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