Scripture
When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion on them and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

Observation
Jonah emerges from the fish and God once again tells him to go to Nineveh and preach God's judgement.

Jonah goes into the city and, to his surprise, the people of Nineveh believe God, they repent and fast. The edict to fast and pray comes from the king himself.

As a result God has compassion on the people and does not bring the destruction he had threatened.

Application
Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire and represented every anti-God philosophy and action imaginable. Jonah didn't want to go and preach there, lest the people repent and are saved from God's judgement,

God's grace is so immense that there is nobody so evil that they are immune from it. No dictator, serial killer or paedophile can evade God's grace- if they repent as the people of Nineveh did.

Our sharing of the gospel cannot be limited to the people we like. Salvation, as Jesus wryly pointed out, is not for the righteous but for sinners.

Prayer
Lord Jesus show me who I need to talk to or pray for today. Rescue me from the kind of judgemental attitude that says some are worthy of salvation and others are not. Amen.