Are you in the Whale's Belly?

Have you or are you now facing problems that you think how in the world am I going to make it through this? Is there something in your life that you are running from? Are there feelings of hurt, anger and resentment toward others that you seem to keep wallowing in? Do you feel like everyone is taking advantage of you? Do you have an attitude of why is this happening to me? When God told Jonah to go to Nineveh, he did not want to go because he did not feel the people deserved grace. Jonah went and sailed on a boat headed in another direction, yet, that was not God's plan for him. In his disobedience he was thrown overboard and swallowed by a large whale. I can only imagine the anguish that Jonah felt when he was thrown overboard in the sea. Not only was he thrown in the sea but Jonah was swallowed by a large whale and was in the belly of the whale for three days. Can you imagine what Jonah was thinking? The odor that must have been in the belly of the whale? God took these circumstances of Jonah's disobedience and turned it around to save a nation. God is a merciful God and He loves us! Are you stuck in the whale's belly? Maybe the trials and tests you are experiencing are to cause you to lay aside your feelings and say not my way Lord but thine be done. Lord, wherever you want me to go, I will pick up my cross and follow you daily. Remember the song, Something Beautiful, something good; All my confusion, He understood; All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife, But He made something beautiful of my life! Now is the time to surrender to the Lord and let him heal our brokenness and strife. You must allow God to take the circumstances you are facing and make something beautiful of your life.