Fish Story

I take courage in the fact that God told Jonah to go to Nineveh not once but twice.

Today I made a special effort to pay close attention to the readings (Jonah 3:1-10 and Luke 11:29-32) but found myself thinking about my past, thinking that Jonah…as I…was not really excited about doing what God told him to do. But God did not give up on him; God went to extreme measures to show him the light. Just like Jonah …I was swallowed up…not by a fish but by the ways of the world. Only out of misery did I cry out to God. From the pit of despair I called to the Lord to save me from drowning is a sea of secularism and relativism.

Then I thought about the citizens of Nineveh and how they all listened to Jonah’s warning…how even the king listened and complied with the warning…they repented and turned away from their evil ways. Then I thought of our people, our congress, and our king and thought how nice they would look in sack-cloth and ashes.

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help me, in this season of repentance,
to truly comply with your wishes.
Give me the wisdom to do what I’m told.
So you don’t have to tell me twice.
Amen