I remember an
old Alka-Seltzer television commercial that featured a guy wishing he had never
eaten a certain food. The man sat on the edge of the bed saying, “I can’t believe
I ate the whole thing.”
His wife
commented from the other side of the bed, “You did, Ralph.”
There have been
times that I have been absolutely miserable in life because of sin. It’s these
times that a purging of the sin from my life has to take place to be
spiritually healthy again. It isn’t always pretty and can be very unpleasant,
but the results are for the best.
The giant guppy
had been suffering with indigestion for three days and three nights. I had
always figured that it delivered Jonah somewhere along an ocean shore. But
actually it had traveled up river until God told it to beach itself by Nineveh
and regurgitate its stomach contents. It did so and returned to the ocean. How
did it spell relief? B-A-R-F!
I remember
another old commercial. It said, “How do you spell relief? R-O-L-A-I-D-S.” For the
Christian it is spelled, “R-E-P-E-N-T.” Nothing brings relief like forgiveness!
“And
the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.”
Jonah 2:10.
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