Jonah 2:10 NLT Then the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah out onto the beach.
After being told by God to go to Nineveh but completely disobeying His instructions he does his own thing by running away from his calling. He soon found himself in a storm and ends up being thrown in the sea sinking down and down.
Maybe you’ve had days like that, when you felt like you were sinking down and feeling all tangled up in all the affairs and cares of life, just like Jonah was tangled up in the seaweed. He was wiser than we think though because, as he realises he’s about to perish, he starts to offer God a sacrifice of praise and repents of his stubbornness and disobedience. Wise man!
It’s at that point the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah out and we find him on the beach, smelling of goodness knows what, but I bet he was on his knees thanking God for his rescue!😊
So where are we in this story? Are we running away from anything, maybe not wanting to do what God has told us to do, or doing it with a grumpy attitude like Jonah? Are we in a storm and feel like we’re sinking under all the pressures of life, being stubborn not willing to accept help? Or are we offering God a sacrifice, a song of praise in the middle of it all and acknowledging our salvation comes from the Lord, with a grateful heart?
When Jonah changed his mind he ended up saving a city of 120,000 souls, which is more than most of us can say, and he shows us how obedience has an enormous reward and blesses so many others.😊
So let’s be encouraged as we begin another week to lift up a sacrifice of praise, no matter what’s going on, repent if we’ve been grumpy, (which I’ve had to do recently), and do whatever it is God is leading us to do, so we can please our God and fulfil our destiny. In Jesus name. Amen.
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