My daughter was recently reading the book of Jonah, and we discussed it during our evening devotion. It is a familiar story — the reluctant prophet, the storm, the great fish, the city of Nineveh — but as we talked, certain truths began to leap out at me. The more I reflected on the story, the more I realized that Jonah is not just a book about obedience. It is a book about the Mercy of God. It is a book about the condition of the human heart. And it is a book that challenges