Good Morning Friends,
“From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the
LORD his God. He said: ‘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.’” (Jonah 2:1-2)
God hears our cries of distress.
When life is crashing in around you and there
is nowhere else to turn, God is there to listen to your cry. God won’t turn His
children away, no matter how late it is when they call on Him. They may have
ignored Him, disobeyed Him, run away from Him, but when they cry out, they find
Him right there.
That was what the prodigal found, too. He ran
away from his family, his morals, and from God. When he finally came to the end
of himself, in the depth of his despair, he cried out to God, and God was
there.
Jonah was in the belly of a great fish and
that’s probably where he prayed his best prayer ever! He knew he needed God. He
was desperate, hopeless, except for God. He called out from his “grave” and
that’s exactly what he thought it was. He thought he was as good as dead. He cried
out and God was right there.
Paul reminds us, “God is not far from each
one of us.” (Acts 17:27)
That’s true no matter where we are. It’s true
no matter how far we have strayed from God. It’s true no matter how long we’ve
been gone from the Lord. It’s true no matter what we’ve gotten ourselves into.
But --- we don’t have to wait until our life
is a mess to call out to God. He’s right there now, too, even when things are
calm! He’s always waiting for us to call out to Him.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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