I Wish I was a Fish

Jonah is an amazing book about rebellion, walking away from God and God's divine deliverance.  I find myself being able to relate to Jonah, a man who knows what it is that God has called him to do and walks away in the opposite direction...away from the presence to the Lord.  God in His providential rule brought Jonah back on course and brings me back in like manner.  But I wish I was more like the fish in the story.

God tells the fish to swallow Jonah and it does.  God tells the fish to go on a 250 mile journey and it does, God tells the fish to puke Jonah up on the shore and it does....there is no arguing, there is no negotiating like my two year old, there is just obedience, blind obedience.  

Jonah didn't like what God was asking him to do so he decided he would go a different direction exercising his wisdom over the ways of the creator of the universe. Although I find myself acting a lot like Jonah I wish I was more like a fish.