Repentance
A Stench That Should Wake Us Up
From inside the belly of a great fish, “Jonah prayed to the Lord” (Jonah 2:1). Wouldn’t you? As he “cried out to the Lord” (2:2), Jonah realized, “I have been cast out of Your sight” (2:4). Why? What could have happened to lead Jonah out of God’s sight? Back up into the first chapter. When God commanded Jonah to “go to Nineveh” (1:2), “Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord” (1:3). He got on a…