We learn from Jonah that understanding God’s grace— and being changed by it— always requires a long journey with successive stages. It cannot happen in a single cathartic or catastrophic experience (like being swallowed by a fish!).
我們從約拿的故事學到, 能認識神的恩典、並被其改變, 總是需要一段很長的過程、 並要經過很多不同的階段, 而不是在經歷一次巨變 (像是被一隻大魚所吞下)就能達成的。
— by Timothy Keller from his book 『The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy』
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