My Crushed Soul

Jonah 2:1-8

Jonah 2

"THEN JONAH prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly,

And said, I cried out of my distress to the Lord, and He heard me; out of the belly of Sheol cried I, and You heard my voice.

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me; all Your waves and Your billows passed over me.

Then I said, I have been cast out of Your presence and Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.

The waters compassed me about, even to [the extinction of] life; the abyss surrounded me, the seaweed was wrapped about my head.

I went down to the bottoms and the very roots of the mountains; the earth with its bars closed behind me forever. Yet You have brought up my life from the pit and corruption, O Lord my God.

When my soul fainted upon me [crushing me], I earnestly and seriously remembered the Lord; and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.

Those who pay regard to false, useless, and worthless idols forsake their own [Source of] mercy and 

loving-kindness."

Jonah was called by The Lord God as a spoke-person in his day... I would say if looking at his personality that Jonah was highly into himself...

Knew the Law's and Prophets, was a God Called kinda spokes-person, trained in His ways... And that he knew if he was to go and speak under the anointing, that the people might just turn and do right,  and God would not wipe them out. 

He, Jonah being with strong minded faith In God, knowing Him had ran...

Jonah is tossed overboard into the sea were he said in verse 5, he drowned, and was caught up in hell...

This starts our message here... He knew he was dead, he had left the One who had power to show mercy, and he repents for his turning to idols that have nothing to help him with... The idol was doing this his way... 

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