Okay, God and satan are having a dialogue and God tells satan he may take everything he wishes from HIS righteous servant Job, EXCEPT his life.
Well, satan wastes no time and goes out to afflict Job. 7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. 8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
This is hard to imagine or even think about having - sores all over. It sounds a lot worse than anything we can imagine. So what does Job do? Job scraped the boils with broken pottery. What does his wife do?
9 His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”
His wife comes to him asking why he maintains his integrity. Integrity is honesty, soundness, staying with ones convictions. Here is a man of God and his wife, his help-mate tells him to die?? Wow-ser!! So how does Job respond? 10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said. Look at this that Job speaks: "Shall we accept good from God and not trouble?" Job was devout; he loved God and placed all his trust and belief in God.
Where are you today? Do you place all your trust and belief in God, OR, you do when it is convenient or you need it? My prayer is that I (and you) love God with no reservations, no matter how many "doubt darts" satan may throw. May your day be blessed, trouble and illness free. Stand on the promise Jesus left us with; having the same power He had, stand on the Holy Spirit! Love you all.
In Christ's Love and Grace
Johnny
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