"Then I said, 'I have been cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.' "
Jonah goes from consciously running away from God, to once again desiring to enjoy His sweet presence (in the context of the tem-
ple--the Old Covenant church). What made the difference? Probably, the time he spent in the belly of the great fish.
God has a way of making us--His churchmen--want Him very badly. Even when our own fleshly wills assert themselves and get us into big trouble--the Lord knows how to bring storms and deliverances from them, to us. As we once again regain our senses, and begin to think clearly, we, like Jonah, say, "I will look again toward Your holy tem-
ple." In Christ, there is always hope.
[Puritan quote of the day: "God would have His people humble, but not ungrateful. It is the devil's policy either to keep us from duty, or else to put us upon it when it is least in season." --Thomas Watson, in his sermon, "The Trees of Righteousness Blossoming"]
