Jonah runs from God in part because he doesn’t share God’s heart for the Ninevites. Why is that? Part of the answer is that Jonah’s identity is wrongly ordered. He places his ethnic and national identity above his primary identity: that he is a deeply loved child of God, made in his image. When we place other aspects of who we are – even important aspects of who we are – above our identity as God’s child, we find it distorts how we see God, ourselves, and others.