Under Attack

What do you do when your health is severely compromised?

Let’s go back to Job and take a look at Chapter 2:

Job 2 ESV

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. And the Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.” And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes. Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

How Did Job Get Here???

This chapter opens with a similar scene as Job 1:7-12

God offers up Job again - but allows Satan to inflict physical pain on Job (vv. 3, 6).

Satan believes Job will now curse God (v. 4).

Body of the Text

Job 2:7 ESV

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

God, in His sovreignty, allowed Satan (the accuser) to inflict Job’s body.

We often confuse God’s sovreignty with God’s action.

Although God is sovreign (supreme), God acts with restraint.

God is not obligated to act in every situation.

Think of a time when you felt that God should have intervined when God didn’t.

Job 2:8 ESV

And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.

Job scraped his boils (worse type of leporsy) in the quest for relief for his new ailment.

Job sat in ashes as a sign of mourning, yet he did not audiblely complain about his condition.

Sometimes you just have to sit in your situation until God directs you what to do next.

Job 2:9 ESV

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.”