One Lesson Learned

John A. Heys is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. The prophet Jonah loved God's church as she existed in the day of shadows. His sin in trying to flee to Tarshish was not that he was carnally attached to the fleshly seed of Abraham, the nation of Israel, and was moved by a patriotism and nationalism like that which any unbelieving citizen can have for his country. His sin was not that he had no use for God's church, or for the growth of that church. He wanted God's love,...