Bible Study Job - Satan's hope that he curse God

[I_love_Springtime]

I think it's interesting that the reason Satan wanted to bring problems into Job's life was to get Job to curse God - and how before this happened, Job would pray for his kids in case they would have cursed God during their feasts. I think a lot of times we end up suffering something that we don't deserve, and actually we took measures against it.

 

[for_his_glory]

Job 1:10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

I love it that God puts a hedge around us that no matter what comes against us we need to stand grounded in the Lord and not let that which happens to us make us blame God. After all that was taken from Job he could have very well cursed God, but he chose to worship God.

Job 1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, 21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. 22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

May this be a good lesson to all of us to put God above all things here on earth.

 

[iLOVE]

“12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power; only upon himself put not forth your hand. So Satan went forth from the Presence of the LORD. (There were limitations placed on what Satan could do, as there are with all Believers. Concerning this, Williams says: “Job does not symbolize an unconverted, but a converted, man. It was necessary that one of God’s children should be chosen for this trial; for the subject of the Book is not the conversion of the sinner, but the consecration of the Saint. It is evident that an unconverted man needs to be brought to the end of himself; but that a man who feared God, who was perfect, and who hated evil should also need this is not so clear.

“We find in this Book that God uses Satan, calamity, and sickness to be His instruments in creating character and making men partakers of His Holiness. Such were the instruments; but the Hand that used them was God’s; and the facts of this Book explain to Christian people, who, like Job, are conscious of personal integrity, why calamities, sorrows, and diseases are permitted to afflict them.”)”

Excerpt From
The Expositor's Study Bible
Jimmy Swaggart

‎The Expositor's Study Bible

‎Religion & Spirituality · 2005

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