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Jonah and the Big Fish

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There was a man named Jonah, a prophet of God. One day, God tells Jonah to go to a place called Nineveh to tell the people there to stop doing bad.

Because of the badness of the people, Jonah was scared and instead He goes with a boat in opposite direction from Nineveh.

Shortly after the boat left the shore, God causes a very bad storm and started tossing the boat around, that the boat is in danger of sinking.. All the men were very afraid so they started to throw all their packages and bags overboard in hopes that they wouldn’t drown.

The captain soon went to find Jonah who was still sound asleep in the boat. He said to Jonah, “How can you sleep? Get up and pray to your god, maybe he can help us!” The captain didn’t realize that Jonah didn’t just believe in any God but the one true God and that He could help them.

Meanwhile, the other sailors decided that the storm was Jonah’s fault. He must have done something wrong to make his god so angry. So they asked Jonah, “What have you done? What god do you believe in? What can we do to make this storm stop?”

Jonah told them, “I believe in the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land and I am running away from something God asked me to do. It is my fault this is happening. If you throw me into the sea the storm will stop.”

The men didn’t want to hurt Jonah by throwing him off the boat so they tried to row the best they could, but the storm just got worse. So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea. The storm immediately calmed and the sea became still. The men on the boat realized that Jonah believed in the one true God and prayed to Him.

Then the captain and the crew looked out to sea as a huge fish came and swallowed up Jonah. God actually sent the fish to keep Jonah from drowning. Jonah stayed in the fish for three days and three nights.

Just think for a second what it would be like to be inside a fish. There are no windows, and lots of strange things floating around that you can’t see because it’s so dark. Other than that I’m not sure what it would be like, but Jonah probably didn’t know if he would ever see daylight again.

While Jonah was trapped inside the fish he did a lot of praying to God. He asked God to forgive him for running away. He also thanked God for not allowing him to drown.

After the third day God told the fish to spit Jonah out onto dry land. And the fish did just that. Jonah was happy to be out of the dark belly of the fish, but boy, did he need a shower. He was slimy and smelly.

Then the Lord told Jonah a second time to go to Nineveh and tell the people there to stop being bad. This time Jonah obeyed God and left for Nineveh right away.

When Jonah got there he told the people what had happened to him. He warned them that God said that they should stop doing bad things or in forty days the city and everything in it would be destroyed. To Jonah’s surprise the people listened to him and they prayed to God and they said sorry for all the bad things they had done.

Soon the king of Nineveh heard what was going on and he ordered that everyone to listen to God and to stop doing bad things. And when God saw that they were trying to good instead of bad He felt love for them and did not destroy their city.

That could be the end of the story except Jonah left the city very angry. He was mad that God didn’t punish the people. He knew that God was a loving God and didn’t want to destroy anything if he doesn’t have to.

So Jonah went on a hill and sulked. God saw Jonah and knew how he was feeling so he explained to Jonah that He loves everyone (after all He made us). He doesn’t like to destroy people who are doing things bad, God would rather see us turn from our bad ways and do good again.

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