Don't Let him Win

Was there a time when something bad happened with no particular reason, and you ask yourself and God why this thing took place? This was the story of Job. Job was practically a good and honest man, living in obedience to God. He had everything: a house, a family, food to eat, and a good life ahead of him, until disaster strikes. He got robbed, his children and wife abandoned him, his so-called friends and followers spit on him, and children laugh at him because of his sorry state. Not only that he lost everything; he even contracted a skin disease so painful, he scrapes his sores with broken pottery.

I never thought this could happen to a Godly person like Job, and I never thought it is possible to happen to common folks like you and me. We acknowledge that in life there are ups and downs as we expected it to happen, but not like what Job experienced.

I couldn’t believe that Satan has the power to wreak destruction even to good people like Job, and what I also couldn’t understand why God allows it too. But in the end, we realize that in everything there is a higher purpose, purpose as high as the heaven that we couldn’t grasp. There is pain and suffering; there is joy and sadness. But what Job did and God proved that Satan was wrong, and could never win. Don’t let him win.