Job 1:1-2:10, Our Faith Through Trials

“Our Faith Through Trials”

Job 1:1-2:10.

God is Sovereign. God is in control. Satan is not in control. God allowed Satan to cause Job trouble, but God protected Job. God would not let Satan lay a hand on him. Trials help us to grow. Job worshiped God through the tribulations. He recognized that all things come from God.

Romans 8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Job is a godly man. We see his faith. He worshipped the Lord to get peace for his soul.

Job 1:20: Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped.

[Job 1:21: And said, Naked came I 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]. Job saw the source of his life. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Job came into the world with nothing, and he and all of us will leave with nothing.

[Job 1:22: In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly]. In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong. God did not pay attention to Job’s wife or Job’s friends’ bad advice.

[Job 13:15: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him]. We have to trust the Lord. God is in control. We trust God in our battles. We are going to have trials. Job mourned but praised God in the loss of his family and everything he had.

[James 1:17: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning]. God changes not.

Every thing we have comes from God. He gives us the ability to work. We are just stewards of what He has given us.

Job’s faith made him strong.

God is on the throne, and God is in control.

We are blessed to have the Word. Help us to live the Word.

Job had the right outlook on life--his faith.

[Philippians 4:4: Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice]. Be joyful no matter what. Job praised the Lord no matter what happened.