Job

So I was reading in Job this morning and just thought that I would post a few things about what I read. In the first chapter Job loses all his wealth and his children. This is his reaction to that. Job 1:20-22 "Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and woorshiped. And he said: 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.' In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong." This so parrelles with James 1:2 which says, "My brethern count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But Let patiens have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." Futher more Job in Chapter 2 shows this endurance in that his wife says "Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!" Notice how Satan had gotten to Job's wife. Remebering that Satans goal in making Job go through all these trials was "So Satan answered the LORD and said, Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. But stretch out Your Hand now, and touch his bones and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your Face!" Job 2:4-5. As if Satan's disasters upon Job were not enough loss of family, possesions, and health. Added to that list is that his wife loss of faith in God. Job is now surrounded by a woman that is encouraging him to stop running the race Heb 12:1-2 and saying that since God does not bless you curse Him. I am encouraged by Job's example and what God is teaching me. God is telling me that he is in control when things are "out of control" in that even in this disaster time God is restraining the disasters. Let us all have the endurance that Job is showing in the first two chapters of Job. Praising God that any good comes into our lives knowing that all we have earned is evil by the works of our sin Romans 3:23.

Tim