Meet God in the Depths!

Jonah 2

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, September 13.

When you accept the invitation of Jesus to become one of His disciples, you are making a vow to the crucified God with the hope of the promise that you will be rescued from the depths of death, “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matthew 16:25). We proclaim our hope in the resurrection of Jesus through our baptism, as Paul described in Romans 6:4-5, “Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection.” Jesus spent three days in the tomb, yet you only spend a moment under the waters of baptism.

Jonah was dead, or at least he deserved to be! After all, he was tossed into the storming sea by the other sailors (Jonah 1:4-16). Instead of satisfying their pagan gods with his death, he was rescued by the God who sought to give him newness of life (Jonah 1:17). Jonah deserved death, but, instead, he experienced three nights and three days in the belly of a great fish, where he cried out to God from the depths (Jonah 2:1-9). God responded to Jonah’s prayers, directing the fish to vomit Jonah onto dry land and giving him an opportunity to respond to the salvation He has bestowed upon him personally. How would Jonah respond? Through Christ, God has rescued you from certain death on purpose: to be a living witness to the sign of Jonah the prophet.

Seize the moment and meet God in the depths of your need. If you have been baptized, remember your baptismal vows. If you have not, why not? How will you respond?

God bless you!

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