On and on I could go about people I might think God has favored more than me. I might be jealous, for example, of the visions and spiritual revelation the Apostle Paul received, but I’m not so jealous of his beatings, stonings, shipwrecks, imprisonments and so on. Likewise, anyone can envy the ministry of the Old Testament prophets and the way they kept hearing from God but who wants the ridicule and rejection dished out to them? Most were as welcome as slugs. Not just Job (Job 3:1-23; 6:8-9; 14:13) but Jeremiah wished he had never been born (Jeremiah 20:14-18) , and Jonah, Elijah, and Moses actually asked God – some even pleaded with him – to kill them (Jonah 4:3,8,9; 1 Kings 19:4; Numbers 11:15).