Religion & Spirituality
The second chapter of this book is a prayer of Jonah's from within the sea creature. He acknowledges he was about to drown before God saved him. The prayer isn't a model one-Jonah doesn't confess his sin, for example-but it is thoroughly scriptural. He paraphrases lines from the Psalms. It teaches us about the usefulness of including Bible references in our prayers -although we should never imply they're required in a -proper- prayer-- The climax to the prayer is this lofty confession- salvation is of God. To that we add that salvation is ALL of God. Even the very repentance and faith by which we first seek conversion is given by him. He gets all the glory.