Why do we insist on our will?

God relented (Jon. 3:10).

When He saw the people of Nineveh turned from their wicked way,

Then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them (v. 10).

But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry (4:1).

He was so angry that he wanted to die (v. 3).

The reason was because Jonah insisted on his will even though God relented.

What was Jonah’s will?  It was “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown” (3:4).

That was why Jonah went out from the city, sat east of it and made a shelter for himself

and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city (4:5). 

What did he expect to see?  It was the overthrown of Nineveh (3:4).

Why do I pray to God with our lips, ‘Not my will but Your will be done’

But with our hearts we insist on our will?