Jonah

Jonah means Dove in Hebrew. What kind of brain does a dove have? A bird brain, of course. Jonah had several attacks of bird-brain thinking. He was prejudiced, he did not want to obey God, he ran three times as far in the wrong way away from his task as it would have been to do the task; he ran ahead of God and got swallowed up in problems. Sound familiar? Theme: We can either be bird-brain run-a-ways, or we can be spectacularly successful if we obey God.