Job 2:7-10
So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
"shall we not receive evil?"
Strong's Definition:
רַע raʻ, rah; from H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral):—adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, × great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong.
I really like Matthew Henry's comment:
Shall we, guilty, polluted, worthless creatures, receive so many unmerited blessings from a just and holy God, and shall we refuse to accept the punishment of our sins, when we suffer so much less than we deserve? Let murmuring, as well as boasting, be for ever done away. Thus far Job stood the trial, and appeared brightest in the furnace of affliction. There might be risings of corruption in his heart, but grace had the upper hand.
When you realize the weight of your sin and the price that our own God, Jesus Christ paid for OUR sins, then holding fast to that reality means grace will win every time. Jesus died for you and I, so that we can live eternally with Him forever. So 70-100 years or less of adversity, doesn't compare to the eternity of billions, trillions, infinity living in heaven in perfection with our Father.
On the flip side, sitting in your misery cursing God, or relying on your self with pride and never humbling yourself to the fact that you can't save yourself, will only get you that same amount of time.... infinity, in hell, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
It doesn't matter how bad it is, hold your head high and know that your heavenly Father who loves you, has already won the fight. Yes, past tense, the cross finished the fight for your life. Now the battle we live everyday is to expel the lies of the enemy and stand on the truth, which is the Bible. Stand firm in the truth, resist the devil, and he will flee.
So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
"shall we not receive evil?"
Strong's Definition:
רַע raʻ, rah; from H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral):—adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, × great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong.
I really like Matthew Henry's comment:
Shall we, guilty, polluted, worthless creatures, receive so many unmerited blessings from a just and holy God, and shall we refuse to accept the punishment of our sins, when we suffer so much less than we deserve? Let murmuring, as well as boasting, be for ever done away. Thus far Job stood the trial, and appeared brightest in the furnace of affliction. There might be risings of corruption in his heart, but grace had the upper hand.
When you realize the weight of your sin and the price that our own God, Jesus Christ paid for OUR sins, then holding fast to that reality means grace will win every time. Jesus died for you and I, so that we can live eternally with Him forever. So 70-100 years or less of adversity, doesn't compare to the eternity of billions, trillions, infinity living in heaven in perfection with our Father.
On the flip side, sitting in your misery cursing God, or relying on your self with pride and never humbling yourself to the fact that you can't save yourself, will only get you that same amount of time.... infinity, in hell, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
It doesn't matter how bad it is, hold your head high and know that your heavenly Father who loves you, has already won the fight. Yes, past tense, the cross finished the fight for your life. Now the battle we live everyday is to expel the lies of the enemy and stand on the truth, which is the Bible. Stand firm in the truth, resist the devil, and he will flee.
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