The Devotional - 29

The Devotional

Comment:

As children of God we are to view life from a godly, or heavenly perspective, the scripture; the Holy Bible speaks clearly that we have been rescued out of the domain of darkness and placed in the Kingdom of God’s Son, Colossians 1:13 and Ephesians 5:8 speak clearly of this transfer in life. We were once darkness, like the world but now because of Jesus Christ our LORD we are Light. If we believe in Jesus as the Holy Scriptures reveal, we are already children of God. The point! Why live like the next door neighbor who is living in the land of the dead with no focus on the future. Live as God’s children in the land of the dead, but with your eyes on the land of the living. Hebrews 11:13-15.

Challenge: Job 2:1-10

Most of us would consider that suffering the loss of everything a man has would be enough, yet Satan is not a supernatural being of mercy. His aim is to devour God’s children, Jesus says that the devil is a murderer and a thief, John 10:10 now please note; Satan is not some being in red leotards and a pitchfork in his hand, he is however someone to be feared.

Isaiah describes the devil as such: “those who see you stare and you, they ponder your fate; “is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, the man who made the world a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home? Isaiah 14:16-17 (NIV). Job understood this by seeing the invisible through faith in Christ, which is reveal by the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18.

His strategy is clear to the child of God, but those in darkness his strategy looks like light. In keeping them in darkness, there is no mercy, simply comfort by deception to live in sin. Comfort in pride and idolatry and human pleasure, these are the three main sins that control the dark world around us. 1 John 2:15-17.

In two days Job lost the love of his life and the comfort of his health, can you dig into that for a moment? Sometimes I think that we are like the person digging into a frozen pint of ice cream, we what the whole pint, but because of the frozen hardness of our heart we only skim off a little of the surface. We have to do better than that if we intend to feast on the Living Word of God.

The first two chapters of Job reveal the “behind the scene” activity of the spiritual war being waged in eternity. We may not understand the depth of this battle or the ways in which it is fought, but we can know the outcome. Job did know the end result of his suffering as he clearly reveals while recovering in the land of living with these following words.

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed (literally, struck off), this I know that in my flesh (his glorified being) I shall see God. Whom I shall see for myself and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart (literally kidneys/emotions) yearns within me, Job 19:25-27.

There is no fear in Job that he has lost his way with God, nor should we when we are afflicted by the devil fear that we are abandoned by God and rejected from eternal life. We are by faith in Christ, God’s children, being confident and unashamed that when we see Him we will be like Him, 1 John 2:28 through 3:3.