Jonh 2:3

In Jonah 2:3, Jonah continued, For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.  From this statement, we can almost say Jonah was blaming God for his predicament.  He knew that the sailors weren't responsible.  Jonah acknowledged that God was still in control.  Even as he ran, even in the belly of the whale, He knew that God was working in his life.  Through all his misfortunes, God had not given up on him.  We today can take courage from the fact that no matter how bad things may seem in life, if we are truly followers of God, He will never forsake us.  That even includes when we are not following His will.  Verse four adds, Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.  Jonah, in one of the most hopeless places I can think of, still had hope in God.  Anytime we are out of the sight of God, that is out of His will, we may see a situation as nearly hopeless, but we need to realize that God is with us.  Even if we are firmly in God's will and the world seems determined to destroy us, we need to remember that God is with us.  We need to look to God through it all.  Verse five says, The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I think we sometimes think of Jonah going straight from the ship to the being swallowed by the whale, but he says he was deep in the water with weeds wrapped around his head before the whale swallowed him.  We may not immediately be rescued when we have trouble in this world, but we are assured that God will make a way.  We never need to live life as though we are defeated.  God is with us if we are His followers.