Time and again like Jonah we have to experience death before we can know the freedom of life. Spiritually it is like we have to give up before we can be raised up, it is like falling into the pit of life, the pit of that whale’s stomach. Just at that time when we realize that there is nothing else we can do, that is when God intervenes and saves us. Remember when Jonah gave up all hope, God intervened and saved him. Before he could live and enjoy the freedom of life Jonah like you and I have to do died to his own desires.
Like a sheep that is so intent and focused on eating that she does not realize she is falling over a precipice we lose focus as did Jonah. Sometimes we need to experience that little bit of death before we can enjoy the abundant life that we have in Him. The moment we think it is all over, that we give up trying the Lord is right there to pick us up realizing that we can’t liberate ourselves and realize that He is there to hold us.
At that moment when we feel that we are at the end of the rope, God does something miraculous. He offers us the gift of grace and mercy. Just like salvation came to Jonah, salvation is there for us, He is waiting to rescue us.
Rayed Redemption Ministry
Euless, TX 76039
www.rayedredemption.org
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