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  Jonah’s God (5)     [Jonah 2:1-10]                     Can you give thanks to God in times of sufferings?                 I think about Jonah's prayer.  Jonah eventually prayed in the stomach of the great fish in Jonah chapter 2 even though he had an opportunity to do so when he was disobeying the command of God, running away to the opposite direction of Nineveh where God wanted him to go and cry against it, and the ship that aboard was about to break up and when all the Gentile sailors were crying out to their own gods.  In such a hopeless circumstance that is in the stomach of the great fish Jonah surprisingly offered a prayer of thanksgiving instead of complaining.  How can we know this?  When we look at the Hebrew word of “prayed” in Jonah 2:1, it was used to express thanksg...

Jonah’s God (4)     [Jonah 2:1-10]                     According to the article ‘Difficulties in the job’ by Eland Company in Korea, the difficulty of the work that seems to be intricately intertwined can be summarized in two ways.  One is the difficulty of human relations and the other is the difficulty of work.  According to the results of the survey, the difficulty of human relations is about twice the difficulty of work.  Everyone wishes for a job without difficulty, but the pain in one's work may be the will of God and the price of sin (Internet).   There are six parts of the meaning of the job in God: (1) First is the means to understand the command of God and to accomplish the will of God; (2) Second is the means to train and succeed in God's way as Christians; (3) Third is the means of learning obedience as the children of God; (4) Fourth is the ...