Have You Considered My Servant Job

I have always loved the book of Job. One of my favorite parts is where God is talking to Satan asking if he had considered His servant Job. Since I am a parent myself, I recognize the words of a proud parent...”Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth?” I love to picture my Abba’s face. Have you considered my servant Cindy? Oh how I hope my life can bring words like that to my fathers lips.

After God asks His question we hear Satan’s reply, “Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house…” Therefore, God removes His hand and over time, Job loses everything, health, riches, and yes even family. After loosing his 10 children, Job rents his mantle, shaves his head, and falls down upon the ground, and WORSHIPS! How that must have angered Satan! Have you considered my servant Job?

I like to keep fresh in my mind that there is a battle going on. A battle of good and evil. And if the only bullets I can send forth today are a smile while in pain, I am going to do it! When I wake up crying from the pain in my head, I roll out of bed to my knees to praise Jesus. I picture joy, hope, and worship – all as things that sear the enemy. Have you considered my servant Cindy? Those words keep me going.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death…for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Revelation 12: 11-12

I am certain that Praising God in the mist of suffering makes the enemy furious! And finding purpose in our pain makes Satan out to be a liar and encourages those who have yet to see God in the midst of their suffering!

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