ListenDaily - 10 July 2009: Is it God's fault?
Job's First Test
In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing. Job 1:22 NIV (find any passage at www.Biblegateway.org)
If you can, please read chapter 2 for next week.
"In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing."
"In all this..." was pretty big. Job lost all of his livestock, all but three of his servants, and all of his children. We know that he was attacked by Satan, but what did Job know? He did not have the book that bears his name to get that information.
But remember, Job was a man who "...was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil...." Whatever he knew, or did not know, he knew that evil could not come from God. So that left him with two choices: 1) These were not acts of evil, however they appeared, or 2) God was not responsible.
We should have that perspective on everything! God cannot do evil, everything He does is good. We may not know which applies to a given circumstance, as Job may not have known. But this perspective allows us to say, along with Job:
"May the name of the LORD be praised."
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Questions:
1. What are your thoughts on Job's responses as recorded here? 2. How do you respond to bad news? 3. How might that be different if your first response was worship, and your second to praise?
INTERESTING THOUGHTS:
Blessed Be Your Name
by Matt Redman
Hear it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL3NFhmxQxs
Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name
Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name
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