Now for the theological teaching and let me just say for those Christians out their who are going to read this, please I am not an experienced teacher and I do not have a degree in theology, so if I happen to get anything wrong here, please feel absolutely free to correct me.
I'm sure we all remember the story of Job?? Job was a man who had everything, God blessed him abundantly because he had found favor in God's eyes and he was faithful to God and loyal. As we all know satan was cast out of Heaven before the earth began, what some don't know is that satan could move between earth, the atmosphere and enter into Heaven, this was the case until the crucifixion, now satan is limited to the earth and the atmosphere. Anyway....before I digress, during the time of Job, satan came before the Throne in Heaven and began to make accusations against Job (satan is the Hebrew word for accuser - for those of you who don't know). And he accused Job of not being loyal to God, saying that if things had to go wrong in his life he would turn on God, he would blame God and to make a long story short God gave satan the go ahead to make an attempt at proving his stupid theory.
And it wasn't God who tore Job's life apart, it was satan. If you go into the Bible and read the story by the time satan was done with Job there was practically nothing left of the man's life, satan took and destroyed everything, he even lost a child or 2 in the process.
Here's the interesting part, Job never turned from God. In fact his faith remained as unshakable as always, through all the turmoil, the pain, the suffering, the loss, he trusted God implicitly and on top of that continued to praise Him and worship Him inspite of everything. And ultimately made a completely ass out of an inferior creature who in my opinion is nothing more than a dumb animal - I think a donkey has more intelligence.
My point is this, it's easy for us to praise God, to worship Him, to be utterly in love with Him when our lives are good and when things are going well and we're happy. But let something go wrong.....then you suddenly find that praising Him and worshiping Him.......not so easy anymore, is it?? And I always say that it is in those times when we should be praising Him through our suffering that we separate the men from the boys or the girls from the women.
I could go into an entire discussion or explanation as to why satan messes (or attempts to mess) in our lives, why God allows it etc etc. but then this would become a book, no longer a blog. I will say this however, God is ALWAYS in control of satan and his actions and his every move and satan does not so much as sniff skew without God knowing about it. And satan only does things in our lives that God allows him to do and there is ALWAYS a legitimate reason, he does nothing without God's knowledge and that God does not allow. And in addition if God allows satan to do something he can only go as far as God allows him to. God has the idiot on a leash.
Jesus never said He would give us a bed of roses, but He did say that He would take our hand and walk with us through the fire.
Let it me leave you with this thought to ponder - Iron is forged in fire, what does fire do? it burns....what does it feel like when something burns? it is unbelievable pain........but what happens to iron the more the fire forges it? it becomes stronger, harder, tougher, more durable, more resistant.
Just something to think about.
God Bless :P
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