Tonight we finished our two week series about Jonah. We acted out 2:1-3:3a. In it we find what happened to Jonah after he is thrown into the sea. He is saved when he prays, how you ask? By sending a big fish to swallow him alive. After sitting for three days, God causes the fish to vomit him up on the shore. He prays and thanks God, who again sends him to Nineveh, this time Jonah does what he is told.
We can all be lost. Sometimes we get lost physically, sometimes emotionally, sometimes spiritually, ans sometimes we get lost from the calling that God has given to us. But this story should give us hope. It teaches us that no matter how lost we get, God is still able to find us. It teaches us that when we turn back to God, we become found. How do we turn back? We must first realize that we have drifted away, then ask God to forgive us, and finally put our whole self into it (passion, time, engergy) putting it above all things. And when we return to God he accepts us, loves us, transforms us, and then places us back on our path. Are you ready to return to God?
I give tonight: B-
Favorite Moment: Being able to smell the story (dead fish heads)
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