Have you ever been right and your enemy wrong?? Did they come back and admit they were wrong and you were right?
Satan didn’t admit to God that God was right about Job. As we saw last week, Job didn’t curse God when everything he had was stripped away. Satan said he would, but he didn’t. This week, we’ll see Satan try again to prove God wrong.
Job 2:3-10 3 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There
is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God
and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you
incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”
4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he
has for his own life. 5 But now stretch
out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you
to your face.”
6 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your
hands; but you must spare his life.”
7 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. 8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and
scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
9 His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your
integrity? Curse God and die!”
10 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.
Satan lost again! Job didn’t curse God, even after his wife encouraged him to do the very thing Satan wanted.
Only God is all-knowing, omniscient, and always right! I had to admit to Edmund (our 7 year-old) yesterday that I was wrong. It was related to something we read in Job 7 that I had mis-remembered. We read it again and he was right and I was wrong.
Numerous truths and applications pop out of this section of Job. This time reading through it, though, the contrast between God and Satan really stood out.
It’s usually hard to admit when we are wrong. However,
I would rather not be like Satan. The next time you and I are wrong, let’s be
quick to admit it to ourselves, those around us and especially to God. He already
knows, as our all-knowing God, so why not acknowledge it before Him?
