God's redemptive plan

This morning in chapel we talked about the story of Jonah and how God's plan goes forth regardless of us, but that God chooses to use our obedience. There is evidence of this all throughout the Bible, even though Jonah was disobedient and unfaithful at first God's plan for the redemption of Nineveh still went forth and the 125,000 people of Nineveh still heard God's message and believed. Esther 4:14 says, "For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place." These things are true because this isn't a story about us or what we do or how we do it, it never was. Despite what some popular Christian music may say even my salvation wasn't, and isn't still, about me, but God. This is all a story about God and ultimately about him redeeming people from every tongue, tribe, and nation to himself.