So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
So the captain found him and was like, 'What are you doing sleeping right now? Get up and pray to your God, maybe he'll actually care about us and we won't all die out here.'
Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to ask you to bring God into the situation.
📚 Historical Context
In the book of Jonah, which is set during the 8th century BC in ancient Israel, the prophet Jonah is fleeing from God's command to preach repentance to the Assyrian city of Nineveh, boarding a ship headed for Tarshish instead. A massive storm sent by God arises at sea, putting the sailors in fear for their lives, while Jonah remains asleep below deck. The shipmaster, a pagan sailor, approaches Jonah and implores him to wake up and pray to his God for deliverance to prevent their destruction.
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