Be Still And Know

Jonah 1.1-3 NLT The Lord gave this message to Jonah son of Amittai: “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are.” But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the Lord. Most Bibles will have the title “Holy Bible” on the cover and that could easily give the impression that it is a book stacked full of stories of really holy people. The sort of people who never take a step out of line, and who go around being real goody goodies from morning till night. It is surely a relief to us all that the Bible is nothing like that. At times it feels like the complete opposite of such a book! Jonah is a classic example. He is called by God and he is appalled by God’s command. Going to Nineveh was absolutely the last thing that he would ever want to do. The city was, at the time, one of the largest cities in the world and was famous for its sin. It stood at the heart of the great and menacing Assyrian Empire and everyt