Thursday, April 10, 2014

In Jonah one, God tells Jonah to go to Nineveh to preach there. Jonah disobeys and gets on a boat to Tarshish. Jonah falls into a deep sleep and when he awakes there is a huge storm. Jonah tells the shipmates to toss him overboard. They eventually do, and the storm immediately stops. Then Jonah gets swallowed by a whale. In chapter two, when Jonah is in the belly of a fish, he prays to the Lord and repents. The Lord causes the fish to vomit Jonah on to the shore. In chapter three, God tells Jonah to go to Ninebeh a second time. Jonah obeys this time and he tells the people they need to repent. To Jonah's surprise, they do and God forgives them. In chapter four,Jonah is mad because he wants the city of Nineveh to die. He tells God to take his life but God doesn't. God provides a plant that Jonah can sit under but a worm chews on it and it dies. Jonah gets really upset about the plant and God asks him how it is okay to be mad about a plant. Jonah gets very angry about the plant and wants to die and God asks how it is right to be concerned over a plant and not concerned about the 120,000 people in Nineveh

Favorite verse: Jonah 4:1, "But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry," This is my favorite verse because Jonah thinks he can determine right from wrong but he can't.

Application: I am like Jonah because sometimes when I'm like mad at my sister I like want her to be punished because I'm so mad at her. Even though wanting the people of Nineveh to go to hell is more extreme than me wanting my sister to get punished its still the same sin. I am going to try to be nicer to my sister and to not always want her to be in trouble.

1 comment:

  1. Unfortunately it is in our human nature to desire to see ourselves above others... just as Jonah did. nice thoughts here 15/15

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