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“In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly” (Job 1:22).
“In all this did not Job sin with his lips” (Job 2:10).
Have you ever had a lot of bad things happen to you in a short time? When those bad things happened to you, did you sometimes feel angry that the Lord had allowed those things to happen? Were you sometimes tempted to say something bad?
Job had some awful things happen to him. First he lost all his wealth and all his children, and then got so sick that no matter what he did, he was in pain. You can read about all this in the first two chapters of Job. I am sure that none of us ever had anything like that happen to us.
Yet Job did not say anything bad, even when his wife told him to “curse God, and die.” That is often the way unbelievers act, when serious trouble comes into their lives. Maybe you have heard unsaved people swear when something bad happened to them. But Job did not do anything like that; he accepted it all from the Lord. That is a good lesson for us, for just as the Lord allowed it all for Job’s good, so He allows everything in our lives for our good.
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