Reflections

⁴Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

 5″However, put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face.”

 6So the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life.”

 7Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.  Job 2:4-7

Sickness and disease is not the will of God.  God does not use sickness and disease to teach us lessons to make us better people.  Satan had already taken everything Job had including his children, but was convinced that if Job himself suffered then Job would curse God.

We can see that Satan had only ill intensions toward Job.  Satan could not stand Job’s relationship with God.  God did limit Satan by stating that Satan could not kill Job.  Even though Job was in Satan’s power, Job’s life was still in God’s hands.  We can be assured that no matter what Satan tries to do to us, no weapon forged against us will prosper.  All that Satan did to Job did not result in Job cursing God.  Instead God was able to demonstrate that Job was a good man.  Job feared God and shunned evil.