Jonah 1:6 So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.” Thought for the day – Sleeping through the storm Have you ever been woken up at the worst possible moment? The captain in Jonah finds Jonah fast asleep in the hold while the ship is breaking apart. “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your God!” It’s a rebuke from a pagan sailor to a man of God. Jonah is sleeping because he’s exhausted from running from God. He’s gone down into the ship, down into the hold, down into sleep. It’s the sleep of someone who has closed their heart to God and is worn down by his rebellion. Compare that to Mark 4. There’s another storm, another boat, and another sleeper. But Jesus isn’t sleeping because he’s running. He sleeps because he’s resting in the Father’s hands. The disciples wake him with a very Jonah-shaped question: “Teacher, do you no...