Happy Sabbath

Today's story is about pride.  Pride is when you think you're better than someone else.  The problem with this, is that God hates pride.  When we think we are better than others we also start to think we don't need God and that we can handle things on our own.

The thing is, we ALWAYS need God.  He made us so that we would need Him.  He wants us to depend on Him and ask Him for help.  If we think that we have everything figured out and that we know it all, then we're really going our own way ...

One day God asked a man named Jonah to go to a place called Nineveh and tell the people living there to stop being bad.  The only problem was that Jonah didn't want to help the people there.  He knew they were bad and he wanted them to be punished for their mistakes.

So instead of listening to God, Jonah thought he would run away from Nineveh and not do what God asked him.  He ran to the sea where he found a ship that was going to another city.  He paid the captain, went in the lower part of t...

2:2-23

[2] Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
[3] And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
[4] And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti....

2:2-23

[2] Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
[3] And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
[4] And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti....

Chapter 1

1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a ...