Angry about the right thing?

Do you remember Jonah? I'm sure you do, but only Jonah running away from God, Jonah being swallowed by the fish, ...

Let me tell you of another lesson we can learn from Jonah, which I learned from Chick Yuill at ROOTS UK:

Do you remember Jonah sitting under the rizinus God made grow for him to provide shadow and to cool down both his body and soul? Because at this moment Jonah was angry. Angry at God because he chose to be merciful instead of simply wiping out a whole city.

But then God did not only made the rizinus grow but also sent a worm making the bush wither in just a few hours.

Reason enough to be angry, or not?

So what's the point of this? Firstly, Jonah is angry about a merciful God who didn't send thousands of people straight into hell. Secondly, he is mad about the lovely shadow being gone.

Are we angry about the right thing? Are we angry about what pleases us or about what pleases God?

Think about it!