Jonah (part II)

By Odon Bulamba (summary only)

Jonah 1:4-6

God gave the chance to Jonah to go on the boat. When the wind and waves appeared, Jonah thought he should go down to sleep. But who can sleep while they are in trouble? Who among us can sleep while he is fearing something will happen to his or her life? For example, if today you receive a letter from Bin laden saying that he is coming to visit your house tonight. Will you sleep? I think you will decide to sleep somewhere else, away from your house.

Many people in this world have this message from God to share with others but they don't have the courage to accomplish it. They think they just have keep it to themselves and to give the impression to others that they don't care or that they don't see what is going on around them. And when we close our eyes or our ears from what is going on around us we are like people who are asleep. And many times God will come back to us and we will tell God we didn't hear Him. Today God wants to tell us that we will be responsible later on because we neglected it or we didn't want to fulfill it.

While the waves pounded, those people on board the ship wondered where Jonah was. They went down and found him. The first question they asked was, “what are you doing here?” And the people of this world are asking us what are we doing here in this world, this world which is moving in the waves of the power of darkness and we're here quietly hiding ourselves and we don't want people to know who we are.

Our conscious is telling us, what are we doing here? If God asked you today, what are you doing in this world? What would you respond? Would you tell him that you are working for the government? Or will you tell God that you're working for maybe an engineer or a counselor? What answer would you give to your God if he asks you what are you doing here? Maybe it will be hard to tell God about things which don't have any spiritual meaning because God expects from us spiritual things more than physical things. We must have an answer every day, every time or at any moment because we don't know exactly the time when we will be asked about our mission on this earth.

SUMMARY

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