"....I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me..." Jonah 2:2
Jonah was running from God, refusing to obey His command and feeling justified in second-guessing the Lord. This got Jonah in severe trouble, so austere in fact, that he labelled his condition as 'being in hell'! We land ourselves in some of the worst situations through our disobedience and rebellion against God. Broken, battered and dying, we cry to God out of our hellish hole and amazingly God hears us! If someone offended us the way we do God, we probably would not respond to their cry of help and in our flawed human nature may even wish for them trouble or difficulty. Mercifully that is not so with our Lord! We serve a God who is rich in mercy and not indifferent to our pleading, even when the trouble we inherit is well-deserved. As God-fearing servants we ought to be careful however not to take His love and clemency for granted, by making it our practice to disobey and ignore His directives. God's mercy and patience are not a licence for our rebellion!
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