Jan 23rd
Jonah 3:1-5
Then the Lord spoke to Jonah a second time: 2 “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.”
3 This time Jonah obeyed the Lord’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.[a] 4 On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!” 5 The people of Nineveh believed God’s message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow.
I was listening to NPR the other day. It was an interview with a Paleontologist. The paleontologist was talking about how dinosaurs had super lungs. (Link at the end.) During the Triassic period the air was so bad that a human being would not last two seconds. Our lungs are too weak. This is why dinosaurs had the competitive advantage over other animals. Because their lungs were stronger.
Stay with me.
I saw a lot of correlation between dinosaurs in the Triassic period and us in the corona period. It seems more and more that our air is getting more and more polluted with viruses and just poor care of our earth. And then there’s the fact that Covid attacks the lungs and the breathing. So it helps to keep your lungs strong. So what does this mean for us? What does this have to do with today’s scripture?
Well because the Ninevites listened to Jonah they lived an extra 150 years according to history. All they had to do was listen to Jonah. See the correlation? I am seeing people die from covid who could have easily lived 10-30 more years. Some because they aren’t listening to the advice of the experts. (To play devils advocate, some have passed even though they have worn masked. Either way, the point is to protect yourself and others.) Some people are damaging their lungs, living through covid, but who is to say that there’s not going to be another virus, or that we won’t pollute our air even more?
Stay safe guys. Listen to the experts. It may prolong your life, the way that it did for Ninevah.
Be like dinosaurs.