Job 3 – 4
Imagine being in such bad shape you curse the day you were born. Think of all Job has lost and the misery he is enduring physically, his first words are cursing the day he was born. This idea was expanded in the movie “The Butterfly Effect” where Ashton Kutcher’s character has the ability to go back in time and change something, each time he does life is different but ugly all the same, so he keeps going back and altering what happened till his final solution is to commit suicide in the womb.
This is where Job is, wishing he could do just that. Verse 3:11 he asks the question:
Job: Why did I not die at my birth,
simply pass from the womb into death?
Imagine the despair to say this! He lost everything and if it was not for him living those lives would not have been taken or existed. I hope to never imagine the loss he has. At the same time I cannot understand why God would have allowed this in the first place. It’s almost like he was manipulated into this by Satan!
I love the story of Job and his faithfulness, but at the same time have to question God on allowing Satan to do this. Job passed the test and is “restored” with the stuff, but not with the people. Life would never be the same without that, unless God resurrected all Satan had killed.
Verse 4:17 asks some great questions:
“Can a mortal stand innocent before God?
Can a man or even a hero be pure before his Creator?”
The answer is NO to both questions and this is where the story of Jesus is wonderful. We do not have to be perfect before God, just redeemed by the blood of Jesus. This simple act made the afterlife with God possible for all mankind. The biggest key to this salvation is accepting it and trying to do good. We will never earn our way, but at the same time we could lose it. We can look at the “once saved, always saved” doctrine in throughout this study to determine what we need to do to protect ourselves.