Jonah And Neehemiah

Jonah and Nehemiah are two prophets that can teach us Christians a lot of life lessons and also how to deal with things when adversity strikes. The story of Jonah is one of the more well-known stories throughout the Bible, probably because we can learn so much from it in what is such a little book of God’s Word. It starts out with God telling Jonah to go to Nineveh, a great city that was weak in its beliefs. Jonah, instead of trusting in the Lord, fled to Tarshish. To get to Tarshish, he first had to go to Joppa and get on a ship. It was on this ship that the Lord made it clear that Jonah was not to go to Tarshish, but instead to Nineveh. Jonah and a bunch of other mariners were in the middle of the Sea when God brewed up a massive storm. The men all prayed to their pagan gods to stop the raging sea. Meanwhile, Jonah was fast asleep in the cabin of the ship. One of the men then came to Jonah and told him to pray to his God to stop the storm. When Jonah prayed to …show more content…
Nehemiah rebuked the nobles for their usury of the Jews. He made them give back the vineyards, and everything else they took from the people. They also took an oath and said that they won’t do it again. Nehemiah asked the Lord that he will shake out the ones that aren’t truthful in their promise. Not only in these instances during the story of Nehemiah, but there were also many other ones where the people would show weakness but then bounce back with great faith. The two stories of Nehemiah and Jonah are similar in ways such that the great city of Nineveh was stricken with sin, just as Judah seemed to be going nowhere good. Both of them turned out to be just fine. They also both show that trusting in the Lord will bring you to the good parts in life. But, when we don’t trust in God, as Jonah didn’t at times, we will always be led astray and into the ways of the