Sleepy Sailor Scares Seasoned Seamen Series

This vessel should not have encountered such sever strife upon the Sea, because the captain knew enough to read the charts and the weather and he would have known if the conditions were going to be rough for his vessel. Yet all appeared calm on the outside and to make it more discouraging, God‘s man was safe asleep. This should have been the time when Jonah took to his knees and begin to call upon God; he did not do so and the craft almost went down because no one stood up and called on the God of the universe for help. The sailors did pray but they did so without Jonah’s help. Left to themselves they became afraid because they could not face the onslaught of what was happening. Is it too far a field to say that today, too many of God’s people are asleep while the Church is struggling with the storms it faces from without and from within? The Church is also laden down with debts, high salaries, fine buildings, the best of so much in the world and the sinners who are within and without the Church are afraid for their lives and God’s people are asleep.

Here was a man of God who did not care about anything or anyone else except himself, asleep while all else struggled. What will it take for God’s Church to arise and take its stand for God?

Not only was the STORM Sudden in its appearance it was also very Similar to what is happening in today’s world regarding the Church. There is one more point about this tempest as it related to the men on board that particular ship so long ago, and it is important to remember just how Savage this tempest was. It was so bad that the sailors jettisoned all the “stuff” in order to save their lives, but that still did not stop the ferociousness of what was happening.

God meant to get the attention of His wayward and disobedient child and He was not going to let up on His efforts until Jonah came to his senses and submit unto God’s call.

I am a firm believer that God is trying to get His Church back to its first love and He is not going to stop His pleas with His people until He gets their attention and His Church says yes to Him or the Church will go out of existence. What is keeping us from being revived when we see that the Church of God is under attack by the Moslems, an ever increasing Federal Government who is trying to gain more control over His Church, and an ever increasing secular world who disregards God’s House and His people?

We are in a life and death struggle and the battle is not going to subside until we who are called of God wake up from the boughs of our Church and help get rid of the “stuff” that weighs us down then fall on our knees to worship God and beg for His forgiveness and His help. That vessel of long ago entered a storm that was ferocious and it was struggling at sea, but all found it was useless until they all turned to God. Our Church will continue to struggle as that vessel did until we acknowledge God in all things and turn to Him for help from our laziness and lethargy.

II. SEEKERS: It is a mystery how some things lead people to God. These sailors were certainly not God fearing men, because they each were praying to his own god.