No Choice 5
Here’s a bigger fish tale….. Jonah. You see he also had a choice, but he made the wrong choice. God told him to go to Nineveh and preach unto it the preaching that God bid him. But what did he do? He headed in the opposite direction to a place called Tarshish. He made the wrong choice and got in trouble. Ended up getting thrown over board, and swallowed by a whale. MT 12:40 says the great fish was a WHALE. The whale didn’t have a choice. Jonah may not have been the Blue Plate Special that day, but the whale was already commanded of God to swallow him up. I can just see that fish, headed out to deep water, lay on the bottom and digest Jonah. But Jonah remembered his vows.
I will pay that, that I have vowed.
When Jonah made the right choice, the fish didn’t have a choice. He started on a suicide mission. If he got too close to shore he’d get beached and he would die. But he didn’t have a choice, because God commanded the fish to vomit Jonah out upon the dry land. (A Backslid Preacher will make even a fish sick at it’s stomach!) John 11:1-44 tells us the story of Lazarus.