Thoughts from God’s Word

Meditations on the Book of Job

Chapter 1

Job:
• he is blamess and upright
• he feared God and shunned evil
• had 10 offsprings – 7 sons and 3 daughters
• had 7000 sheeps and 3000 camels
• had 500 yoke of oxen and 500 female donkeys
• he is the greatest of all people of the East (in today's economy, he was Bill Gates in richness!)
• did daily burnt offerings for each son and daughter for sanctification (just imagine the amount of animal blood flowing everyday!)

- God and Satan was aware of Job. God and Satan can be aware of us too!
- God and Satan talks about people, especially God’s people
- Satan skims through the earth and checks what’s going on (he is not all knowing, not all powerful, and not all present - only God is!)
- God puts a hedge of protection on Job’s life. 3-layers: around him, around his household, and around all on every side (God protects Christians too, under His wings, by His angels, with His mighty shield)
- Satan challenges God and asks permission to take out the first 2-layers (a true Christian could not be possibly demon possessed, God is in control of Christian lives)
- Satan does not waste a second once permission is given to touch God’s people (Satan is more than happy to destroy you, and he does not take a day-off until he makes you fall down)
- In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong (v.22) - that's the true mark of God's people. Life here is temporary, we're not home yet, our destination is heaven!