Jonah 2:4-6

"So I said, 'I have been expelled from Your sight.  Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.'  Water encompassed me to the point of death.  The great deep engulfed me, weeds were wrapped around my head.  I descended to the roots of the mountains.  The earth with its bars was around me forever, but You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God."

The first part of this lament is all about vision.  Jonah believes himself to be in a place where God can no longer see him.  Jonah actually feels so far removed from God that "it is as if" he is out of God's sight.  He goes on to say that weeds were wrapped around his head.  Again - this is metaphor for a feeling of separation.

Perhaps you have felt distanced in the past.  "Where is God?  I don't know."

That is what Jonah is feeling as well.  But look at his remedy:

I will look again toward Your holy temple...

This step is necessary to the repentance process.  I will look again to where You are.  I will do my part to rediscover You.  I will knock at the door that You answer.

Looking again is the "Re", in revival.

Today, we can be revived.  Look again.

 

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