The captain approached him and said, "What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god. Maybe this god will consider us, and we won't perish."

"Come on!" the sailors said to each other. "Let's cast lots. Then we'll know who is to blame for this trouble were in." So they cast lots, and the lot singled out Jonah. Then they said to him, "Tell us who is to blame for this trouble were in..."

Jonah 1:6-8 CSB

I wonder if these experienced sailors knew that this storm was different, unexpected in direction, intensity. Whether that's accurate or not, their world view was that someone was to blame.

The pressure was really on and they feared that their ship was going down and this was their last night. 

When the pressure is really on, what, or who do I put my faith in? 

When were faced with suffering, the impact of other people's choices, actual storms, illness, what or who do I put my faith in?

Maybe it's less dramatic. When I have Covid, and then it hangs around, when I don't pass that exam, miss out on a sale, a deal, an opportunity, what does that say about the God I believe in, in what or who I put my faith in.

The sailors turned to Jonah. To where, or to what do I turn?

Jesus said this to his team the day before he went to the cross;

"I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. 

Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. 

But take heart, because I have overcome the world."

John 16:33 NLT

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