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Finding God's Comfort

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Finding God's Comfort

By: J. R. Miller
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 There is an ancient book called Job which takes its name from the man whose story it tells. He lived in the land of Uz. He was a man of up-right life and godly character. He had a large family and was very prosperous. The home life of his family was particularly happy. His children feasted together daily and their father took pains with their religious life. The disinterestedness of Job's piety was questioned in the heavenly councils by Satan. God asked him, "Hast thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.'' Satan answered suspiciously: "Doth Job fear God for naught? Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land." Thereupon Satan received permission to try Job, who was stripped of all his possessions and bereft of his children. When tidings of his sore losses were brought to him he exhibited deep grief, but he made no complaint; he only said, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away." Again there came a day when God talked with Satan. God asked Satan where he had been. Satan replied that he had come "from going to and fro in the earth." This was Satan's account of his occupation. He had been very busy, running here and there among men. He did not say what he had been doing in this hurried going from place to place. We know the kind of employment which fills his hours. We know he is never the friend of men and never the friend of good. He never goes about to bless people. Peter confirms Satan's own statement that he is ever going about, but he adds a word, lifting the veil and showing how the adversary is engaged, what he does. He goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. So we learn that he is not so harmless a visitor as he would have us think he is. He is very busy, truly, but he is busy finding ways to harm God's children. We may take several lessons. Satan's example of ceaseless activity in doing harm should stimulate us to all manner of activities in doing good. It is a shame if the agencies of sin and evil are more diligent and earnest than the agencies of good and blessing. We should learn also not to be deceived by Satan's professed interest in our lives. Though he transforms himself into the appearance of an angel of light, we know that under his shining robes he hides the lion's heart and the lion's ravenous cruelty. As before, God asked Satan if he had considered his servant Job, that "there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man." God knows when a man's life is good. His judgment never errs. We may be deceived in others. We may think they are upright and worthy, when in reality their lives are hollow. Every now and then we hear or know of a man long supposed to be honest and true, respected and trusted by his fellows, who is suddenly unmasked and seen to be only a mockery of the virtues and excellences of which he seemed so long the very embodiment. But when God passes on a man an encomium like this on Job, it is a true judgment, for he sees the heart and knows what is in man. We need not care for any one's good opinion if we have not God's. We should not be indifferent to the approval of men, but it matters little if we have this if we know that God does not approve us. And if men condemn us it need not break our peace if we know that God approves and is pleased with us.
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