Wednesday, March 17, 2010

God Talking To Satan

In order to be on the Liberty track team, they provide us and require us to do a daily devotional. They check them periodically and I need to catch up on my track devotions so I decided to do a few today. Well we just started in Job chapter one, and I found myself reading the first couple of verses as a conversation between God and Satan. I actually found it comical because its a very interesting conversation. And since I'm at the beach, I can picture this conversation taking place on the beach. I can picture God sitting in his beach chair, while Satan comes up to him and starts talking to him. I know it's not in context, but it just seemed funny to me. Don't get me wrong, this is a very very powerful message, but I took it more towards the lighter side today. Here's how it translated in my mind:

God(G) - Whoa. Satan, where did you come from?

Satan(S) - Oh you know, all around. Here, there, a little bit of everywhere.

G - Oh, well have you seen my Job over here? Not a single man like him on earth. Completely innocent and clean, and stays away from evil because he loves and fears me?

S - Hmm... well why does he fear you? Don't you have a protecting shield around him so no one can touch him? And you've given him everything he wants and needs! Family, friends, servants, food, cattle, land, everything! But I know that as soon as you mess with any of it he will turn against you and curse you to your face!

G - (laughing) This is going to be funny. Ok Satan, everything he has is in your hands now. Mess with his stuff and see what happens. Just one thing: you can't kill Job. If you even think about killing him the game is over and I'll pull the fire alarm and start the sprinkler system in Hell.

S - Sounds good to me! Watch me work my magic! (thinking- that was stupid.)

G - I heard that!

All jokes aside, this is unbelievable. God giving Satan a free shot at Job. It makes me think... if God were to have this conversation about me, would I respond as Job does? "The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." (verse 21)

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