My favorite fish story really isn't about a fish at all. It's about the One who made the fish and it's about us. I'm talking about the story of Jonah, or as many know it, Jonah and the whale.
Christmastime is a good season for another reading of Jonah. Why would I suggest that? Because the story of Jonah and the story of the birth of Jesus both reveal the extremes to which God will go to save sinners.
God loved the people of Nineveh so much that He chased down a defiant Jonah to have him deliver God's message of repentance and salvation to a sin-filled city.
That same God traveled from divine to human, from spirit to flesh, from heaven to earth in order to become a man who would save sinners. He went to a lot of trouble for the human race; for sinners like you and me.
Read Jonah this Christmas season and you will find a story of a God of relentless love; the same God who was willing to assume human form as a baby who would grow up to die to save you and me.
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