We are going through the book of Jonah together as a church before Easter. Today’s chapter is everyone’s favorite part, or at least the most familiar. The part about the whale. But more than just a tale of a whale, Jonah is a tale of the miracle of undeserved grace. And of how God works in our world and in our lives and in the lives of those around us. In the Hebrew Scriptures, Chapter 1 ends with Jonah thrown overboard and sinking down beneath the waves of the storm, seemingly abandoned by God in judgement of Jonah for running away. But we join Jonah in the deep waters about to not be swallowed by judgement, but rather swallowed by grace.
