Have you considered
Job’s integrity? (Job 2:3)
Dear Priscilla,
I see you study Job next week. It’s all in Job. Pay attention to Satan’s second round; and, in particular what God says about Job and about Himself: “The Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered my servant Job? …He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.’" (Jb 2:3). Can it be true that Satan incited God to destroy Job “for no reason”? Your BASB chicken’s out. What do you think?
The Book of Job has the courage to raise all sorts of troublesome questions. It is a theologian’s nightmare. His friends seem to say what is theologically correct while Job seems to say what is suspect at best. But, in the end, God says, his friends were wrong and Job had it right (42:7). Maybe the thing that is right about Job is that he speaks with integrity. After all, that was the wager.
Love, Papa
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