Jonah 1:1-3 ” The Word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: ‘Go to the great city of Ninevah and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.’ But Jonah ran away from the Lord…”

Ninevah was the capital of the powerful Assyrian Empire. They were feared and hated by the Israelites, so when God commissioned Jonah to go and preach repentance to them…he ran in the opposite direction in disobedience and a resentful attitude. Why? Because he knew God, and his greatest fear would be that God would bestow forgiveness and mercy on his most hated enemies. We have to always remember that like Jonah, we can run from the place where God calls us, but we’ll never run from His Presence…for when He calls us to something, He will pursue us forever.