🚨 Watch out! Satan 👹 wants to use the ordeal to keep you away from God!!!

There are situations in the life of a righteous, faithful, God-fearing Christian who deviates from evil, where his faith, at some point, will be put to the test. As it happened with Job: Satan can come before God and challenge God to put us to the test: Take this or that away from him and see if he will not blaspheme against You and, God allows to show Satan that the righteous servant, faithful, God-fearing, and shunning evil, will remain true to his love for God. Something can be taken from the servant of God (children, father, mother, health, riches, family, work, home, emotional balance, stability, plans, dreams, future, communion with God). Satan's goal is to separate us from the Creator. He wants us to be angry with the Creator. We cannot allow it! May we learn from Job to love God for who he is and not only for what he gives.

Job 1:1-22

1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was blameless, upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.

2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

3 And his cattle were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred asses; there were also very many servants in his service, so that this man was greater than all those from the east.

4 And their children went to one another's houses and feasted each one in turn; and they sent and invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

5 It came to pass, therefore, that when the course of the days of their feasting was ended, Job sent and sanctified them, and rose early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, Perhaps my children have sinned, and have cursed God in their hearts. So did Job continually.

6 And on a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came among them.

7 Then the Lord said to Satan, Where do you come from? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going around the earth, and walking about in it.

8 And the Lord said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.

9 Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?

10 Have you not fenced in him, and his house, and all that he has? Thou hast blessed his handiwork, and his cattle have increased in the land.

11 But stretch out your hand, and touch everything that he has, and you will see if he does not blaspheme you to your face.

12 And the Lord said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your hand; only against him do not stretch out your hand. And Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

13 And there came a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

14 That a messenger came to Job, and said unto him, The oxen were plowing, and the asses were feeding beside them;

15 And the Sabeans came upon them, and took them, and smote the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone escaped to bring you the news.

16 While he was still speaking, another came and said, The fire of God fell from heaven, and burned the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone escaped to bring you the news.

17 While he was still speaking, another came and said, “The Chaldeans commanding three troops, they fell upon the camels, and took them, and smote the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone escaped to bring you the news.

18 While he was still speaking, another came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

19 Behold, a great wind came upon them from beyond the desert, and hit the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they died; and I alone escaped to bring you the news.

20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshipped.

21 And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither; the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord.

22 In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with any fault.

Remember if:

Hebrews 12:5-11

5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that pleads with you as children: My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, And do not faint when you are rebuked by him;

6 For the Lord corrects what he loves, And he scourges everyone he accepts as a son.

7 If you endure correction, God treats you like children; because, what son is there whom the father does not correct?

8 But if you are without discipline, of which all are made partakers, then you are bastards and not children.

9 Furthermore, we had our fathers according to the flesh to correct us, and we revered them; shall we not much more subject ourselves to the Father of spirits, that we may live?

10 For those, indeed, for a little while corrected us as they pleased; but this one, for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

11 And, indeed, all chastening, at present, does not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, but afterward produces the peaceable fruit of righteousness in those exercised by it.

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