Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall tackles one of the most honest questions we rarely dare ask aloud.

Through the story of Jonah, a prophet who knew God well but struggled to accept his mercy, Chuck exposes the bitter disappointment

that can poison our souls when life doesn't go as planned.

This isn't just another Bible story about a man and a fish.

It's about the resentment we carry when life delivers a raw deal.

So let's discover how to move from angry pouting to peaceful surrender and finally find the relief that comes with saying,

I'm not in charge.

We're going to draw our thoughts from a book so ancient, some find difficulty even dating it.

And it has suffered from all kinds of intellectual malpractice, if you will.

I'm referring to the book of Jonah.

And most anyone will tell you even if it's as harsh,

it's critic, that it's a story about a man

who was swallowed by a fish.

That is a tiny, tiny, infinitesimal part of the book.

It's the story of a man who was disappointed with God. Now, it's unusual for him because he

happens to be a prophet. And we don't think of preachers as being those who struggle with God,

but he did. In fact, he never seemed to find a peaceful route to take. He seemed to be a

misfit to his calling. Interesting, the passage we're looking at today in the early part of the fourth chapter of the book that bears Jonah's name tells us why.

He has had such a struggle.

Interestingly, he knew God very well.

He just didn't agree with what God was doing.

I want to read for you from the last verse of the third chapter

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