Jonah gets a wake-up call

If your family has an alarm clock or a phone with an alarm setting, you know what a wake-up call is. It’s a message that it’s time to shake off sleep and get moving!

Jonah was a man who needed a wake-up call. He wasn’t asleep in bed with his eyes closed, though. He looked like he was awake. But in his thinking, he was asleep to the need to obey God. Here is what happened:

Jonah lived a very long time ago, in Israel. He was a prophet of God. His job was to listen for God’s messages to His people, and then tell the people what God said. God’s messages were always helpful. They helped the people know how to act, where to go, or what to change about their thinking. 

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