What happened? In the belly of the fish, Jonah had begun to grasp the idea that all human beings are equally unworthy of God’s love and that therefore all human beings have equal access to God’s grace. But Jonah’s idolatries had reasserted themselves with a vengeance. His apprehension of God’s grace in chapter 2 had been mainly intellectual. It had not penetrated his heart. Jonah stands as a warning that human hearts never change quickly or easily, even when a person is being mentored
