The New Life in Christ: Let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them. Isaiah 55:7.

The king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor they shall drink water.

Human beings and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands.

Who knows?

God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”

When God saw what they did, how turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it. Jonah 3:6-10.

Amen.