Jonah Pt. 5 - Will We Let God Grow Our Hearts? Jonah 4:1-11

Jonah chapter 4 begins with Jonah declaring God's good, faithful, and generous love "evil", and ends with a question: If Jonah can pity a plant he has no responsibility for or attachment to, cannot also God pity the 120,000 people of Nineveh and their cattle?
By ending with a question, the text places us, the reader, in the seat of Jonah, and asks us if we won't also have pity on the "Nineveh's" of our lives, or will we call God's good, faithful, and generous love "evil". Taking a cue from the Grinch, it's as though Jonah places us on Mt. Crumpit, hearing the Who's song, and asking if we won't allow God to grow our hearts three sizes as well.