Jonah Was In The Belly Of The Fish Three Days And Three Nights
Then they said to him, “What shall we
do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For
the sea was growing more and more tempestuous. He said to them, “Pick me up and
throw me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is
because of me that this great storm has come upon you.” Nevertheless the men
rowed hard to bring the ship back to land, but they could not, for the sea grew
more and more stormy against them. Then they cried out
to the LORD, “Please, O LORD, we pray, do not let us
perish on account of this man’s life. Do not make us guilty of innocent blood;
for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.” So they picked Jonah up and
threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging. Then the men feared
the LORD even more, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.
But the LORD provided a large fish to
swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three
nights.
Jonah must have done a lot of
soul-searching in the belly of the whale. All of us can identify. Sometimes
life just goes badly. When it does, like Jonah, we need
to ask ourselves some hard questions. Ask if there is sin in your own life? In
light of Jonah’s blatant disobedience, God had to do something drastic to catch
his attention and lead him to repentance. Ask yourself what you can learn from
your own experience. The wicked people of
We learn
lessons in the school of suffering
that we can learn
in no other way.
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