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Jonah at once changes course.

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Announcements › Forums › Everlasting Punishment — November 1st, 2020 › Jonah at once changes course.

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  • October 28, 2020 at 8:34 am #11642
    Susan
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    The story of Jonah requesting to be cast out of the boat during the storm, reminds me of where Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health, page 253. “If you believe in and practise wrong knowingly, you can at once change your course and do right.”

    He did at once jump into the sea during the storm, once he acknowledged he was wrong, and chose to correct his disobedience then and there. This must have taken a lot of courage and trust. He didn’t wait till the storm had ceased to correct his actions. He put his life in God’s hands at that very moment. Even if we seem to be in a self created mess from a mistake, in the fish’s belly, we can turn to God. God saved him from the fish’s belly and Jonah got back to working for God.

    Thank you for a great lesson, as always.

    October 30, 2020 at 8:59 pm #11653
    chardelle
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    Thank you! We can always turn to God no matter the mess we are in…. usually self created.

    I became very curious about Jonah after my Bible fell open to the 4th and last chapter. Even after Jonah returned to God in his prayers, was delivered from the whale’s stomach, went to Nineveh as God directed, he was still angry about the whole thing and wanted to die. I was struck about how God stayed with him and although Jonah was given a rebuke He made it clear to Jonah that he must trust God in His judgement and be content. This is a wonderful lesson not only to obey God, but also not to question what God is doing or has done.

    October 31, 2020 at 7:22 pm #11654
    Gary
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    This is a good lesson on the wiles of selfishness. It was selfishness that drove Jonah to take a boat to Tarshish. When he saw that his selfishness endangered the lives of others, his love for others took over, and he was willing to do whatever would save the rest of the passengers. But after delivering the message to Nineveh, and seeing God’s forgiveness of their sins, his pride and selfishness tried again, this time to persuade him he would be better off dead than alive. Mrs. Eddy emphasizes over and over the importance of humility. The Bible is full of it as well. Unless we are totally without pride, it will try everything it can to trip us up and prevent us from doing what is actually in our best interest to do.

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