Job 1-2

I know it’s been a while since my last blog entry; I started school back and have not had as much time. It may be a little longer in between entries but I will definitely keep it up! I apologize if you are following along.

Today I’m going to discuss Job chapters 1 and 2. These chapters tell of a man named Job, who was extremely blessed; he was wealthy and had a lot of possessions, and 10 children. And Job was a very righteous man who feared and served God. Satan was convinced that Job was only righteous because he was so blessed, so God allowed him to test Job. All of his land, possessions, and children were taken from him at the same time. Then he became covered with boils which were extremely painful. Through all of this, Job did not curse God; he remained faithful. Chapter 1 verse 21 tells us that after he lost everything, he said “the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.” After his health was taken in chapter 2 verse 9, he says “Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?”

These chapters really spoke to me. It reminded me that we as Christians are going to face challenges, and our faith will be tested. It is extremely easy during these times to get mad at God or ask “why me?” It is important to remember that God is not causing these bad things; Satan is. God allows us to be tested because that is what faith is for. It is easy to have faith in God when everything is going exactly how we want it to. It is easy to love God when we can look around and see how blessed we are. The challenge is to have that same faith when nothing seems to be going our way. It is more difficult to love God when we feel like everything has been taken from us. Job 2:9 says “Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” I know I quoted this verse earlier but I thought it was worth quoting again. It is not fair to God if we only take the blessings from Him. What is the point of faith if we only have it during the good times? The thing to remember, as we will see later on in Job, is that God will always come through for us. Though it may not always seem like it, He will never give us more than we can handle. If we keep our faith and praise Him no matter what we are going through, the blessings we receive will be endless. There is a song by Mercy Me called ‘Bring the Rain’ which I think fits in pretty good with these scriptures. If you watched Amanda’s last video blog she played a clip from it. It says “Bring me joy, bring me peace. Bring the chance to be free. Bring me anything that brings you glory. I know there’ll be days when this life brings me pain, but if that’s what it takes to praise you; Jesus bring the rain.” This is one of my all time favorite songs and you should definitely listen to it when you get a chance. Those lyrics are so powerful to me; yes, we are going to be tested. We will have “rainy days” as the saying goes, but if we can get through those days we will be given joy and peace and endless blessings!