Be Still And Know

Jonah 3.1-3 NLT Then the Lord spoke to Jonah a second time: “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.” This time Jonah obeyed the Lord’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all. Jonah had learnt his lesson. He had tried running away from God and spectacularly failed in the attempt, and so when the Lord called him for a second time he obeyed and went. The task before him was colossal. Nineveh stood at the heart of the great Assyrian empire and had a population of more than 120,000 people, about twice the size of Babylon. It was one of the biggest cities in the world at the time, occupying a strategically important location on both north-south and east-west trade routes. Today it forms part of the large city of Mosul in Iraq. Nineveh was the last place on earth that Jonah would have chosen to be, but that’s where God wanted him. The Bible introduces us to many people who were led by God to places where they didn’t want t