You may think that you failed God’s plan so much that you’re stuck in the whale for life, but that’s not true. Jonah was not the only person who messed up in the Bible. David failed “royally” as he lied one day and because of his lies all the priests of Hobnob were murdered. He also committed adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband murdered. Yet the Scriptures tell us that he had a heart after God... and he too cried out to God with a broken and contrite heart. It does not matter what sin you’re committing. God will forgive you and restore you back to the joy of your Salvation (Psalm 51) as long as you confess your sins! God tells us in Joel 2:25 that He will “restore the years that the locusts have eaten.” This Scripture tells us that God will restore the years that you lost and will make you usable again for His glory. Despite David’s sin, Jesus was a descendent of him. He even used Jonah’s failures to represent 3 days of Jonah in the whale, as a comparison of Jesus descending into the ground for three days! So God can turn our failures around and use them for His glory when we seek His will again. Like Jonah, let our prayer be, “In my distress I called to the Lord, and He answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and You listened to my cry. You hurled me into the deep, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all Your waves and breakers swept over me. I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’ The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweeds were wrapped around my head. To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in, forever. But You brought my life up from the pit, O lord my God. When my life was ebbing away, I remembered You, Lord, and my prayer rose to You, to Your holy temple. Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs. But I, with a song of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. What I have vowed I will make good. Salvation comes from the Lord.” (Jonah 2:2-9)
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