Alice was a little girl who liked to sing and play. She loved her Bible story book and read from it each day. She was reading Jonah's story, all about that Bible time, when an airmail bird delivered a note that had this rhyme: Reading is the magic key to take you where you want to be. The book that Alice held became a giant magic screen. She walked on through to Bibleland and came upon this scene.
God was telling Jonah, "I have for you a mission. Jonah, go to Ninevah and fix a bad condition. "The people there are sinning. They don't know right from wrong. They need someone to warn them whose faith is very strong "
They are strangers to you, Jonah, But help them mend their ways or their wickedness will bring despair in only forty days. " Thought Jonah,
"I don't like them. I won't warn them. I won't go. I'd rather disobey and hide than help folks I don't know! <
So Jonah tried to run from God. He paid to take a ride on board a great big sailing ship with a space where he could hide. But Jonah couldn't hide from God, for God is everywhere. When Jonah hid beneath the deck, God found him hiding there.
God sent a wind that caused a storm that rocked the ship at sea. And all the sailors on the ship were frightened as can be. Back and forth the ship rocked. It almost broke in two. The captain went to Jonah and asked him what to do. Jonah said, "I ran away and disobeyed the Lord. It's me He wants to punish, so throw me overboard. " The sailors didn't want to do as Jonah said they should. The storm kept growing worse and worse as Jonah knew it would.
To calm the storm, the sailors had to follow Jonah's wish. They threw him in the sea and then God sent a great big fish.
The big fish swallowed Jonah. As he sank into the sea. "oh me, oh my, " thought Jonah, "what will become of me? " Inside the fish's belly, all alone and scared he stayed. For three long days and three long nights Jonah prayed and prayed. Jonah asked God to forgive him for running far away, For Jonah knew it was wrong to ever disobey. He thanked God for His mercy. He thanked God for his care. And from the bottom of the sea, God heard his every prayer. God had the fish blow Jonah out safe upon a shore, And God told Jonah he should go to ninevah once more.
This time Jonah minded God to Nineveh he went. He warned, "You all have forty days in which you can repent. " The people there all listened. They repented, everyone. And God forgave and spared them when he saw what they had done.. But Jonah wasn't pleased at all, For Jonah had no pity. And wasn't happy that he helped the people save their city. Jonah sat down in the sun and next to him, God made a lovely plant that grew and grew and offered Jonah shade. The next day God destroyed the plant that Jonah learned to love; He questioned why God did this and God answered from above:
"you felt pity for a plant
That lived for one short day
Isn't Nineveh far greater
Than a plant in every way?
That city's filled with people
who were wicked and were bad.
They were sorry and repented
And that made me very glad. "<
Then Jonah finally understood For his heart he knew that God is merciful and wise and all forgiving, too.
Alice walked back through the screen, She put her book away-and thought, " I learned three special things In Bible land today."
- first of all, we must obey what God tells us to do;
- God is everywhere, we can't hide from His view.
- No matter how bad we are or we can be, when we become sorry, God has mercy and has pity and forgives us lovingly...
Then Alice said a silent prayer and thanked the Lord above for all the lessons she had learned and for His endless love.
Waw,what a good story Alice read from the Bible. Alice would now want to obey God and follows His instruction.
Thanks for sharing
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Exactly... Thanks
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Beautiful bro though you didn't dm it to me, i really love these kind of stories
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am so sorry bro..my mind escaped it
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