Do you have the strength for a good hold on God? Well actually, we rely on God having the hold on us – it is the Lord’s hold on us that saves us. Romans 3:23 reminds us that “the wages of sin is death“, and that is why we need God to hold us very tightly. We often get things wrong, do what is wrong, in other words – we sin and deserve death. But the book of Jonah tells us that we can be saved from death, because “salvation comes from the Lord” Jonah 2:9. Death is not just non-existence, it is when we appear before the living God. But it seems that Johah thought he knew better, until he started to see himself as God sees him.