Fish Vomit
Jonah 2:10
And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
Forgive the title of today’s post, but it comes from the Bible!
I think this is meant to be a startling and humorous verse.
Jonah has been taken down to death, and then brought back up by the Lord. As his second chance begins, he finds himself covered in fish vomit. It’s a funny ending. And there is a lesson there for the church.
See, because of the resurrection of Jesus, death loses its power over us.
Can I say it? In light of the resurrection, it even becomes kind of comic.
“For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
