The Darkness Inside The Fish Belly

The Darkness Inside The Fish Belly
A person will be left with shambling acts and groping tracks or trails...

You sure know the story but if possible you don't already know the story then here is it.

Jonah 1:1-3 says, "The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

3 But Jonah ran away from the Lordand headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord."

By the time the story got to verse 17, Jonah landed in the fish belly; "Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights."

Jonah's disobedience earned him nothing but suffering and waste of time and energy. An errand from God is never a suggestion but a command_ the wise messengers simply comply while the arrogant ones suffer bruises from wraths of God before they comply.

When God askes someone to do something but the person refuses, such a person will be left with shambling acts and groping tracks or trails. Except or until compliance, the person slumbers through life and lives through fish-belly-like darkness as Jonah did.


Most errands from earthly authorities are tasks leaving the messenger with choice of  either success or failure (examples of such earthly errands are found in Odyssey).
On the contrary, the scripture has shown that God's errands are always achieveable irrespective of how difficult it seems in the physical context. Moses, a stammerer, was sent to King Pharaoh, a wicked king, and with the help of God (the sender), the message was well delivered.