Sometimes God uses a calamity to get our attention.

Jonah's spiritual awakening followed a life-threatening crisis.

He was thrown into a raging sea and swallowed by a great fish.

While today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall

explores how our most desperate moments can become our most sacred encounters with God. He's

teaching from Jonah chapter 2. And whether you're running from God or simply struggling to connect

with him, today you'll discover why the belly of the fish became history's most unlikely

prayer chapel and what it means for your own spiritual journey.

The Apostle Paul has written whatever was written in earlier times was written for our learning

that we, through patience and comfort from the scriptures, might have hope.

Paul wrote that in Romans chapter 15, verse 4, and in the writing of it, he had in mind the

Old Testament, whatever was written long ago was written for our learning today.

There are many who see less emphasis or less significance, I should say,

from the scriptures in the Old Testament than those found in the new. However, the Bible makes it

clear that God's word is equally inspired of whatever was written in earlier times was written for our

learning.

We're going through the book of Jonah, trying to uncover his story anew and afresh in light of the world in which we live today.

And we come to this second chapter in the story.

And finally, Jonah connects the dots.

And we find him for the first time, if you will, on his knees. Jonah is finally calling on God.

He does it in a rather unusual prayer chapel, you would have to agree.

And we will see it as we turn in our Bibles to the second chapter of Jonah.

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