SOS
Richard Bradley
Jonah 2:1-10
SOS. We all know what this means. We've seen it written. We've seen it in movies like ''Cast Away'' when the character played by Tom Hanks wrote it in the sand of his deserted island. SOS is actually Morse Code. Three dots, three dashes, and three dots. This call was invented by sailors as a distress call and is normally taken to mean ''save our ship.'' However, others have said that it means ''save our souls.'' Sounds like a pretty good distress call for sinners and saints alike doesn't it?
Jonah didn't have a radio or telegraph machine available but he sent out an SOS call of his own. If ever there was someone who needed to be rescued it surely would have been this great prophet.
Since God had arranged Jonah's meeting with a monster fish, only the Lord could rescue Him. In his distress, Jonah called out to God and was rewarded with a second chance.
Jonah 2:1-10
1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish's belly. 2 And he said: ''I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me. ''Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice. 3 For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, 'I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.' 5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God. 7 ''When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple. 8 ''Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.'' 10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited ...
Richard Bradley
Jonah 2:1-10
SOS. We all know what this means. We've seen it written. We've seen it in movies like ''Cast Away'' when the character played by Tom Hanks wrote it in the sand of his deserted island. SOS is actually Morse Code. Three dots, three dashes, and three dots. This call was invented by sailors as a distress call and is normally taken to mean ''save our ship.'' However, others have said that it means ''save our souls.'' Sounds like a pretty good distress call for sinners and saints alike doesn't it?
Jonah didn't have a radio or telegraph machine available but he sent out an SOS call of his own. If ever there was someone who needed to be rescued it surely would have been this great prophet.
Since God had arranged Jonah's meeting with a monster fish, only the Lord could rescue Him. In his distress, Jonah called out to God and was rewarded with a second chance.
Jonah 2:1-10
1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish's belly. 2 And he said: ''I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me. ''Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice. 3 For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, 'I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.' 5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God. 7 ''When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple. 8 ''Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.'' 10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited ...
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