Reflections

 8And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

 9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

 10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks.  Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.  Job 2:8-10

Job was a great man of wealth and by the hand of Satan he lost his possessions, his children and now his good health.  It would be very easy to say that Job was cursed but Job is still favored by God.  Even Job’s wife told him to just curse God and die.  Job’s response was that we should accept whatever God gives us including adversity.  The bible makes a point that Job did not sin by this statement.  However, we know from the story that Job’s adversity comes from Satan.  Still Job makes a bold statement.

In Job’s mind even though he believes that God is responsible for all that has happened to him, Job refuses to curse God.  He accepts that no matter what happens to him, he will continue to acknowledge God.  Oh what faith Job had! 

Are we the same?  Do we only worship and praise God because of the things God has done for us?  Is our faith contingent on God’s continued protection of what we possess?  If God never gave us another thing, or if we lost everything by Satan’s hand, would we still call upon the name of the Lord?  What is your faith based on?  What is it that you seek after from God?

God proved to Satan that Job was an upright man.  Satan accused Job of only serving God because of what God gave Job.  But in all that Job said and did, he did not sin.  Now comes the most difficult part for Job;  the accusations by his closest friends and the fact that no one comes to Job’s aid.