Pray the words of this Lazaroo aloud, in heightened awareness:

“But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.”
(Jonah 1:17)

That’s a long time to be in a fish’s belly, Jesus.

Three seconds is a long time to be in a fish’s belly!

The smell alone would knock me over.
The claustrophobia wouldn’t exactly thrill me, either.

But the fear that I would never get out –
that this is how it was going to end for me –

to suffocate in here…
or be slowly dissolved by the fish’s gastric juices –

that’s the part that would terrify me the most.

Or would it?

Maybe it would be knowing that I had so displeased You
that I forced You to do this to me to stop my sinning.

Come to think of it, I believe I have spent some time in a “fish’s belly”…

for that very thing.

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Numbers 6:36-38; Psalms 119:67; Jeremiah 8:4-7; Mark 2:1-5; Luke 13:1-9; John 5:13-15; John 8:9-11; John 9:1-7; Acts 28:1-6; Romans 6:15-18; 1 Peter 4:1-3

What is Lazaroo?

Take Me Deeper

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