Are you like "Jonah"?

"Pick me up and throw me into the sea," he replied, "and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you." (Jonah 1:12)


While i was reading through this verse i was thinking that why didnt Jonah throw himself into the sea if he was damn sure that all these troubles happened because of him and why didnt he throw himself into the sea if he was sure that if he will be out from the ship everything will be solved.


(If you dont know the story of Jonah, please read the book of Jonah from bible)

One day God asked Jonah to go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before. But Jonah ran away from the LORD, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD. Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. The captain went to him and said, "How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish." Then the sailors said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity." They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. So they asked him, "Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?" He answered, "I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land." This terrified them and they asked, "What have you done?" (They knew he was running away from the LORD, because he had already told them so.) The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, "What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?" "Pick me up and throw me into the sea," he replied, "and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you." Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. Then they cried to the LORD, "O LORD, please do not let us die for taking this man's life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, O LORD, have done as you pleased." Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. At this the men greatly feared the LORD, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to him. But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.

God made me to think from Jonah's point of view;

Jonah was not sure that all things happened was because of him and all things will be solved if they throw him out. He had no other way out of that hell situation, everybody is going to be destroyed and everybody is blaming him and more than that he himself had a self conscious mind which is pricking him because he didnt obeyed the word of God. Only one way is there now, death. He is more helpless that he cannot jump himself from the ship also, because it will become suicide. In short, as worldly people say, Jonah has reached in a real pathetic situation where he is not able to suicide also. At that point he is telling others to throw him out to the sea.

Dear brother/sister are you in a situation like this, are you touring away from God? Are you in a situation that everything seems to be in trouble and everybody is blaming you? Are you in a situation that there is no other way than death? Even your mind is pricking you?

There is no other way only death..
But now you have a good news.. you dont have to die.
Jesus has died for you.

"For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matthew 12:40)

You only have to believe that Jesus died for you

will continue....