Jonah 2:7: When my life was fainting away, I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
8 Those who pay regard to vain idols
forsake their hope of steadfast love.
9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
Jonah was fleeing from the presence and the plan of God. He tried running away in the opposite direction, but wherever he went, God was still there. Finally, in the belly of the fish, all alone and unable to do anything to change his situation, Jonah calls out to God. He admits that God has been in charge all along and realizes that since God has spared his life, he still has a life to live. He cried out to God in prayer, fully aware that He is the only God who can and will answer. He calls out to Him as the God of salvation. God does not answer back to him yet, but God does speak, commanding the fish to spit Jonah out, and it does. Jonah is now in a place where he is ready to go on with life as God plans. Do you need a time alone with God?
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