What drives someone to resent the grace of God? Seems implausible, doesn't it? Well, meet Jonah,

the most successful evangelist in the Bible, who desperately wanted his own ministry to fail.

After an enormous crowd of people found salvation, he sat in bitter isolation, furious at God's

compassion.

Imagine that.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall describes his shocking response, showing how selfishness

becomes a poison that destroys from within.

Isolation we'll see is one of humanity's greatest killers,

and only Jesus Christ can offer the cure.

Chuck titled his message, Ticked Off to the Bitter End.

Today, our Father, as we spend just these few moments in your living word,

may you speak to us in such a way that you crowd out all other thoughts,

you silence all other voices, and you make insignificant all other events of this day,

so that we realize you really mean what you say,

because you have written it in such a way that it penetrates.

It digs deep within our souls, cutting down to where no surgeon's scalpel could ever reach,

revealing the thoughts and intentions of our innermost thoughts and heart.

Thank you, Father, for your spirit's work as you take charge of the truth and drive it home.

May we all realize you're talking about us,

though you wrote these things centuries ago.

We have our occupations and we are grateful for them.

We thank you for the salaries we earn.

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