April 4 - Job (Pt. 4)

Job 2

Summary: Satan approaches God  again after roaming over the earth. God again suggests that Satan consider Job as his target. For God, using Job and suggesting him for these horrible situations was not about seeing him hurt. It was actually to prove to Satan that God's children, when living according to the Word will ultimately rule over temptation and sin. The Lord mentioned that Job was blameless and upright, but also that he maintains his integrity through the trials he was faced with.

The first round, God told Satan he could do what he wanted with Job, except he couldn't lay a finger on him. This time, Satan wants to take it one step farther. The Lord granted this to Satan, but made sure that he spared Job's life.

Satan afflicted Job with painful sores on the bottom of his feet and the top of his head. When this happened, Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself. To make matters worse, Job's wife insisted that Job cursed God for the pain that was inflicted on him. Job, being a blameless and Godly man, quickly corrected her. He said, "shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?". To sum it up, Job did not sin.

After this infliction, Job had three friends who came and sat with him for seven days and nights, but they didn't even speak to him as they saw the suffering he had been through.

A quote from my pastor from a Wednesday night Bible study is as follows:

"Your weakest physical moment in your life, is when the devil will attack you".

Think about your own life. Maybe you haven't battled aids, cancer, or paralysis, but you probably have suffered from a severe sinus infection or a broken bone. Your life just seems to be a little bit different in those cases. In this passage, the devil is attacking Job in the physical sense. He had already stripped his livestock, servants, and even his family away from him, but he is taking it to another level.

Everyday, Satan is looking for that weak point to break you and me. Maybe around lunch time you start getting tired because you were up late with the baby or couldn't sleep. That's when Satan takes his punches. That's when he starts to kick me in the groin because I am weak. I don't know about you, but I HATE being kicked in the groin.

Why would Satan attack you during your morning prayer time or Bible study? Could be for a couple of reasons:

1) Prayer or Bible study only last 4-5 minutes. Out of a day of 1,440 minutes, we often only sacrifice 4  
    to 5 minutes. Why would he attack us then instead of the 1,435 minutes remaining in the day?

2) Satan will not attack us when we stay close to God and make his presence known in our lives.

How will you defend your relationship with God?
In what ways are you weakest spiritually?
How are you weak physically?

Satan loves to see us fall...find solid ground to stand on. Discover a firm foundation in the word.