"Have you considered my servant Job?" — Job 1:8
The LORD initiates a dialogue with Satan, and He brings up the topic of Job’s righteousness. What can we learn from that?
First of all, consider this: God doesn’t lose. He went into this exchange fully knowing that He would win Satan’s challenge. God was very willing to put one of us (i.e., Job) on display, fully knowing that He (God) would emerge triumphant and would bring us along with Him.
Satan would like us to believe that Job was righteous because he was well paid to be righteous. But God took this opportunity to show the whole universe that His righteousness runs far deeper than that. Throughout history, men and women of faith have clung to their love for God even when it appeared that God had forgotten and abandoned them.
This faithfulness is God’s work in us. The roots of this faithfulness run deep, far too deep for the enemy’s claws to reach.
What will sustain us in our hour of need? God’s work in us. God is the Victor, even when the war is waged in a fallible human heart.
Be encouraged!
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