You know the feeling: the mouth gets dry and there is a taste of salt in your throat. Wishing you were dead, you hang on both sides of the flush. This happens to me about every ten years and I would rather have a root canal done without anesthetic. It is described as a forceful discharge of stomach contents better known as vomiting. Something down there just has to come out.
This is what happened to that famous historical fish. Here is what came up: seaweed; bones of small fish; unrecognizable, undigested matter; bile and then Jonah. Someone said there is nothing to make you sicker than a backslidden prophet.
Jonah 2:10
So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
That fish was glad to get rid of that resident and get back to what great fish do.
Do you ever have the feeling you’re the cause of someone getting sick because of your actions? Maybe it’s time for a change of scenery and God is going to provide it. Just hang on because God can even tell a fish what to do in a case like yours.
Isaiah 43:16-19
Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Give it some thought.
Gary