Job, a Man who Loved God (2)

Perhaps you wonder, “Did God take away all of Job’s animals and his children? Why would God do that if He loved Job?” The Lord did not make the terrible things happened to Job but did permit them to occur. They were the work of Satan. Do you remember who Satan is? Satan is the devil. Satan hates God, and because he hates God, he also hates God’s people. Satan tries to get us to do bad things also. God has given us something called a conscience. It is a little voice inside of us which warns us when we are going to do something wrong. Always listen to your conscience, and ask God if He will help you not to sin against Him. Why do you think Satan did these things to Job? I will try to tell you why. One day Satan had said to God, “Job is such a good man, but he loves Thee only because Thou art always good to him. If you will cause him trouble, for example by taking away all of his animals, he would curse Thee and say bad things about Thee.” Although God did not permit Satan to hurt Job himself, He did allow him to do terrible things to Job. He took away his camels, his sheep, and oxen. He even took away Job’s children. Did Job curse God after all this sorrow? No, he actually blessed God, for he said, “The Lord gave, and the Lord took away, Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Satan was not happy about this. He said to God, “If Thou would let me touch his body so that he is in pain all the time, he will certainly curse Thee.” The Lord said that He would allow Satan to hurt Job in his body, but he was not allowed to take his life; he could not kill him. When you read this, you will

see how much power Satan can have. He is much stronger than we are, and we need to pray to the Lord every day that He will keep us from evil and from the evil one, that is, Satan. What did Satan now do to Job? He caused Job to get boils over his entire body. Boils are sores filled with pus, and they cause severe itching and pain. Can you imagine how awful it would be if this happened to you? Poor Job. The Bible tells us that he sat and scraped himself with a broken piece of pottery. Job now did not have much to be happy about because even his wife told him to curse God for all of his troubles. Is that what Job did? No, the Bible tells us that in all of these troubles Job did not sin with his lips or charge God foolishly. Then three friends came to visit Job and to comfort him. Did they treat Job kindly? No, they told him that he must have done something bad to cause God to punish him in this way. The only thing Job did was to curse the day of his birth, but he would not say anything bad about God. It was not right for Job to curse the day he was born, but he would not curse God. Then God spoke to Job, and also to his friends. God told his friends to give him gifts, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before his troubles began. God also gave him seven sons and three daughters. What would we do if all of these terrible things happened to us? Would we praise God, or would we complain? The Lord sometimes sends us troubles so that we will seek Him. Always remember that.

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