Another poem of a beloved Bible character.
JONAH, by Craig Hughes
Can you imagine how it feels to be inside a whale
Surrounded by such slimy stuff and nauseating smell?
Yet that’s where Jonah found himself when running from the Lord.
He should have stayed and then obeyed with attitude restored.
It started when Jehovah gave this Jonah special word
To preach to folk of Ninevah a truth they hadn’t heard.
But in his bias he refused to carry out God’s plan
And sailed instead to Tarsus on a ship to foreign land.
Along the way, the Lord sent forth a wild and stormy sea.
The sailors were all terrified as terrified could be.
When Jonah said he was the cause of such horrific gale,
The sailors threw him overboard, then peace and calm prevailed.
And down, down, down ole Jonah sank to depths of total black,
When God prepared a mighty whale to have a Jonah snack.
Then with a single gulp the whale ingested Jonah in
And three long days of solitude in blubber did begin.
When Jonah had a change of heart and he could take no more,
The Lord sent forth the fish to throw him up on local shore.
Though Jonah stank of blubber guts and everyone could smell it,
He’s still the only man inside a whale who lived to tell it.
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