“Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.
And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without
any reason.”
any reason.”
Job 2:3 (NIV)
Do you see the truths revealed thru this chapter about trials and temptations and tests?
Can you see that these three different words share the same purpose?
Do you see that they are all about our hearts?
God bragged Job up before Satan, knowing Satan would jump at the chance to prove God wrong.
God knows our hearts, He knows our hearts better than Satan does, and better than we do.
It seems that He knows our hearts better than our spouses do.
He sets limits on Satan, for Satan has no power over us, except what God gives him.
We have integrity when our heart and our mouth are lined up, completely in sync.
Job kept his integrity, he made sure that his mouth did not betray his heart.
Logic is of no use if we find ourselves in Job’s situation.
Perseverance – believing in spite of the evidence, keeping our integrity, willing to go thru not demanding out, paid off big time for Job, for Job saw God in a way he had never seen Him before.
I don’t want to go thru what Job went thru, and I don’t think Job would want to go thru it again.
But I also suspect that what the world looks at as the sorriest chapter in Job’s life, is viewed by Job as the highlight of his life. For his faith was vindicated, God was beside him, God had him in His hand, God brought him through, and God brought him into a knowledge of God that he would never had experienced without the trial.
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