Jonah 2:10 Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.
Can you just imagine how Jonah felt? He had to smell – his clothes had to be so dirty and slimy and there he was on the beach in a heap. The trial over. He was alive.
Doesn’t it seem like that sometimes – while we’re in a trial it’s dark and stinky and we feel dirty and wonder if we’re going to get out alive – then when it’s over and God rescue’s us or he causes us to get vomited up and out we, like Jonah, lay there in a heap – breathing fresh air, hearing the steady pound of the surf thinking – “I’M ALIVE! Thank you Lord!”