Thurs.’s Devo - Satan’s Next Blow

Read Job 2:1-10 It is meeting day again in heaven and all the hosts: good and evil, were there. The first verse reminds me of how subject Satan is to God. He comes to present himself before the Lord. Once again God asks Satan what he has been doing and Satan answers once again “going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” I think the “to and fro” is walking parallel like we walk, but the “up and down” is moving through spiritual roads that run perpendicular. The scientists call these worm holes. I call them spiritual highways. And, once again God brings Job to Satan’s attention. He praises Job’s integrity to honor God even though everything he had has been destroyed without a cause. Satan challenges God to destroy his own body and then see how faithful Job is to God. God had a lot of faith in Job and told Satan to do whatever he wanted to do just not to kill him. Satan left and went to Job and put boils all over his body. These boils burned and itched so Job had to take pieces of broken pots to scratch with to try to relieve the irritation. Even his wife was used against him. She tried to turn Job’s heart from God and encouraged Job to blame God. She told him to curse God and die. (Crazy woman.) Job called her foolish. Then Job asked a very profound question. “Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” It is true that we only want good and not evil. Job resigned himself to take whatever God brought his way. There was no entitlement in Job; he just stayed faithful to God. Lord, may we be faithful to you as Job was and not question what you do in our lives; maybe we are being used as a weapon of warfare against the enemy like Job was.