Running Away

Knowing exactly what he was supposed to do Yet from this responsibility he suddenly withdrew Boarding a ship and heading the other way For Jonah was running so he wouldn't have to obey And there at the very bottom of that ship he lay Even as the ship began to violently rock and sway But all the sailors knew with such fear in their eyes Just as Jonah himself would also come to realize So they took Jonah and threw him over the side Into that stormy ocean so dark deep and wide Soon to be swallowed by a very large whale So many people think this is just an old Bible tale But for three long days in that belly would he lay As later he would do that just as God would say Then on that third day he was finally set free And headed straight to Nineveh ever so quickly Are you also running from what God has said Doing only what you really want to do instead Maybe this would be a good time to admit Before another such storm would also hit Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.