The only thing worse than being caught

is NOT being caught.

Here’s what I mean by that:

As painful as it can be to be caught and confronted when we are doing something wrong, nevertheless being caught gives us the opportunity to repent and change direction.

Otherwise, we might continue in sin until it’s too late to turn back.

This is what we see in Jonah chapter 2. Jonah has been publicly identified as running away from the Lord, and the sailors throw him overboard.

Then comes the famous three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

What that ordeal enables Jonah is an opportunity to repent.

(We shall see whether he avails himself of that opportunity or not.)

It’s the same with us—being caught in our sins can become a good thing, if we take the opportunity given to us by the grace of God to actually change direction.