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Who wouldn’t want to be a prophet?

Well, a lot of the people who were actually prophets in the Old Testament.

Moses, when called out of the burning bush, essentially responded by asking ‘Why me?’ (Exodus 3:11).

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Elijah, fresh off vanquishing all the prophets of Baal, is unnerved by Jezebel and flees in the wilderness, asking God for death (1 Kings 19:4). Most infamously, Jonah literally ran away from his calling (Jonah 1:3).

Other Old Testament prophets sometimes resisted their vocation as well. Jeremiah declared,

You seduced me, LORD, and I let myself be seduced;
you were too strong for me, and you prevailed.

I say I will not mention him,
I will no longer speak in his name.
But then it is as if fire is burning in my heart,
imprisoned in my bones;
I grow weary holding back,
I cannot!

(Jeremiah 20:7, 9).

Even Ezekiel was less than enthusiastic:

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