Friday, January 24, 2020

Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?

Job 2:1-13
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life. But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”
He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?
In all this, Job did not sin in what he said
When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
Why?
Satan is roaming throughout the earth, so everyone what he has done is known to Satan either.
A man will give all he has for his own life. This is the basic ability for life. But the pain of flesh and spirit sometimes is more hard suffering to a man.
Job's wife criticized Job, but Job still insists he faith to the Lord. This is true faith.
Sympathize and comfort a suffering man the best way is accomplished with him. But without any criticism.
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撒旦在找人的空隙,向神來控告人。
撒旦比人還要清楚,人要什麼? 人為了生命,可以捨不下一切,財產、家人似乎還不是最重要的。人最在乎的是會讓人跌倒,成為與神的隔閡。人為了保命,會放棄一切。運自尊、榮譽、人格都可以不要。
亞伯拉罕最在乎自己晚年的兒子,對掃羅是面子,對大衛是神的心意,雖然他有軟弱。什麼是我生命最重要的與神等量齊觀,就可能讓我們跌倒。
約伯知道什麼事都是出於神的。神的心意更重要。信仰最重要的。
苦難有神的心意。苦難是神讓人勝過撒旦的方法。苦難中也是榮耀神的方法。
生病與健康與人是否信主,愛主沒有關係。
為了讓撒旦心服口服,就是榮耀神。持守是我們該行的。
對在苦難中的人。人的話都是多餘的。
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How?
Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?


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