Mercy Undeserved

Jonah is certainly not an admirable person.

He is extemely depressed because the Ninevites repented
and God relented of the disaster that He said He would do to them.

Jonah mentions that he wants to die three times
in Chapter 4. and to him the fact that 'God was a gracious God,
and merciful, slow to anger
and abounding in steadfast love,'
was a deficit especially in His dealings
with those that Jonah hated.

But God was all that to Jonah-
saving him from death in the ocean,
and causing a plant to grow and
'made it come up over Jonah,
that if might be a shade over his head,
to save him from his discomfort.'

All undeserved.
And I wondered why.
And then I realized You have dealt the same way with me.
Time and again.
And also all undeserved.