Jonah 1:17,2:10
But the Lord provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.
And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
If a fish had a an upset stomach, would it not go deep into its home, the sea, to get sick? But this fish came all the way up to the surface, to the beach, to throw up. So Jonah didn't drown, as he expected. He didn't drown when they threw him into the sea from the ship, and he didn't drown when the fish threw him up. God's plan for Jonah could not be thwarted. Everything Jonah did to try to get out of it, only made him more effective when he did it. Nineveh was filled with cold-hearted, violent men who had done atrocities to the peoples they invaded, and deserved judgement. But when Jonah came, looking stark white from the fish's digestive acids, their hearts softened and God relented. God will always relent when people repent, confess and forsake.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
