What can we learn from God's most stubborn prophet?

Well, meet Jonah, the reluctant preacher who got everything wrong.

Think about it.

Jonah ran from God's call.

He harbored racial prejudice.

He preached with wrong motives and threw a tantrum when God showed mercy.

Yet somehow this spiritual train wreck made it into Scripture.

Why?

Because Jonah's failures reveal timeless truths about our own stubborn hearts.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall offers four life-changing lessons

from a man who never got it so that we can. He titled his message, Lessons Learned

from a Stubborn Preacher.

We have been working our way through this strange little 48-verse book,

and it can easily be read in four, five, six minutes.

And I find each time when I get to the end of each chapter, I sigh, because I feel he's not getting it.

He's just not getting it.

And you have to wonder, how is it that God would include this in the canon of Scripture?

God knew what he was doing.

He was writing the biography of many a soul who lives now.

I want to read just a selection from Jonah briefly.

I'll be reading from the new living translation.

Verse one, chapter one, the Lord gave this message to Jonahah son of amatai get up and go to the great city

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