New Truth?

So apparently the Ninevites were incredibly wicked people (using human skulls for wine glasses). But they responded to Jonah's call to repent or be destroyed, just as the Lord expected and really just as Jonah expected--they turned from their evil ways. (This is what I understood in Romanian Adult Sunday School today) As a matter of fact, I realized today that God desired many populations to come to repentance and loved them just as much as He loved the Isrealites.

I KNOW God has a heart for the nations, but He just continues driving it home. Around this time of year I always get a little misty-eyed as my college-student friends head out into the nations. Yes, yes I know I'm also "at the end of the earth." Pray for all of us who are trying to make disciples and teach all that He commanded us. It's hard work waiting for the nations (or in my case 9 kids warded to the state of Romania) to come to repentance.