God Doesn't Give Up

He cares more for the worker than for the work. If all God cared about was Nineveh, he could have gotten someone else. But he wanted Jonah to confront the evil in his own heart and to see something of the great love inside God’s heart. God doesn’t need Jonah, but Jonah desperately needs God. And we can say more generally that God doesn’t need us but we desperately need him. It takes a lifetime for most of us to grasp that truth. (Smith)