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08-18-2007, 06:20 AM
Questioning God's Love
Author: Theodore Epp
Devotion: Theodore Epp
Scripture References:
Job 2:1-10
Satan did not give up easily. He did not succeed
the first time, but he would try again.
He had removed Job's possessions and his family,
but now he was going to touch Job where he
thought every person was vulnerable. Satan's
proposition now was to add physical suffering to
the problems of this man whom he thought was
strained to the breaking point.
God had given His permission, so Satan brought a
terrible disease on Job. Some think it was a
form of black leprosy, said to be the worst kind
of leprosy.
Even after all this, Satan was not through with
Job. Another blow was still to come. Job's wife
came to him and said, "Dost thou still retain
thine integrity? curse God, and die" (Job 2:9).
She must have thought that God, whom Job served,
had forsaken him. Possibly she thought God could
not be a God of love since He had let such
suffering come upon a man who had served Him so
well.
Isn't such an attitude familiar to us? Haven't we
even thought these things ourselves?
"'For I know the plans that I have for you,'
declares the Lord, 'plans for welfare and not for
calamity to give you a future and a hope"' (Jer.
29:11, NASB
Author: Theodore Epp
Devotion: Theodore Epp
Scripture References:
Job 2:1-10
Satan did not give up easily. He did not succeed
the first time, but he would try again.
He had removed Job's possessions and his family,
but now he was going to touch Job where he
thought every person was vulnerable. Satan's
proposition now was to add physical suffering to
the problems of this man whom he thought was
strained to the breaking point.
God had given His permission, so Satan brought a
terrible disease on Job. Some think it was a
form of black leprosy, said to be the worst kind
of leprosy.
Even after all this, Satan was not through with
Job. Another blow was still to come. Job's wife
came to him and said, "Dost thou still retain
thine integrity? curse God, and die" (Job 2:9).
She must have thought that God, whom Job served,
had forsaken him. Possibly she thought God could
not be a God of love since He had let such
suffering come upon a man who had served Him so
well.
Isn't such an attitude familiar to us? Haven't we
even thought these things ourselves?
"'For I know the plans that I have for you,'
declares the Lord, 'plans for welfare and not for
calamity to give you a future and a hope"' (Jer.
29:11, NASB