{"id":4021,"date":"2023-07-16T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2023-07-16T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T05:10:00","slug":"why-do-bad-things-happen-to-good-people-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=4021","title":{"rendered":"Why do Bad Things happen to Good People? (Part three)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People?\u00a0 Part Three.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

           <\/em><\/strong>                         Job\u2019s Further Trial<\/u>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the second chapter of the book of Job, we now have a another picture of the council of God meeting, with Satan present once more. Once again God asks Satan \u201cWhat have you been doing?\u201d with the answer that he had been roving backwards and forwards over the earth. We can rest assured, that just as he was doing that then, he will still be doing it today, and with all the crime and violence that is going on, it is obvious he is not idle! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God said to him, \u201cHave you taken notice of Job? He still holds firm to his convictions in spite of losing everything he had.\u201d \u201cHo ho,\u201d replied Satan, \u201cYou touch his health and it will be a different story!\u201d \u201cAlright,\u201d God replied, \u201cHe is in your power, but you are not to take his life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We see from this conversation that Satan can only go so far in touching God\u2019s people. We know that God allows certain things to happen to us to correct us and teach us more of His comfort. Paul said that his affliction (whatever it was), was a messenger of Satan to keep him humble and dependent on God\u00a0 (2 Corinthians 12:7)<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0 This answers the age old question of \u201cWhy does God allow bad things to happen to good people?\u201d We see from Job\u2019s reply to his wife\u2019s comment, that he too, thought this disaster had come on him from God. We all tend to blame God when some circumstance\u00a0 outside our control brings disaster to us. Rather, we should look on these things as corrections and times of growing in His knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Satan went out from God\u2019s presence thinking he had Job this time, and chose the worst thing he could think of to torment him with\u2026.being covered with boils! There was no rest for Job with this\u2026.he could not sit or lie comfortably anywhere! \u00a0\u00a0 In spite of Job being such a devout and godly man, yet there were still things for him to learn from this experience, so this trial had a double point. It was showing Satan (and his cohorts) that there was<\/strong> a man who would remain firm in his convictions, no matter what happened to him, and at the same time teach him (Job) more valuable lessons about God\u2019s faithfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This time Job\u2019s trial really begins. His three friends heard about all the calamities that had befallen him, and how he was now in worse straits than ever with his health having given out. So they all came to visit him, to sympathise with him and show their support. \u00a0\u00a0 When they arrived, they were shocked at just how bad he was! They hardly recognised him as the person they knew! They showed their shock by weeping loudly and tearing at their clothes. Each of them sat down with dust on their heads, and then just sat there with him not saying a word! They stayed like that for seven days before they started talking\u2026.Job\u2019s pain was so great with the boils that covered him, and he made matters worse by scraping the tops off them with a scraper of some sort. But even that, as they began to talk to him, paled into insignificance against what they had to say. It would have almost been better if they had all kept their mouths shut!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   What a lesson for us to learn! For those in deep grief it is some times better to say nothing than to even say \u201cI know what it\u2019s like for you!\u201d Even when we\u2019ve been through some traumatic experience, no-one else can step into your mind and know<\/strong> how you feel, as everyone is different.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So next time we will look at Job\u2019s friends\u2019 advice and see what we can learn from it all\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People?\u00a0 Part Three.\u00a0                                     Job\u2019s Further Trial. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the second chapter of the book of Job, we now have a another picture of the council of God meeting, with Satan present once more. Once again God asks Satan \u201cWhat have you been doing?\u201d with the … Continue reading Why do Bad Things happen to Good People? (Part three)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508],"tags":[542,894,658],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-lessons","tag-pain","tag-sympathy","tag-talking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pray-.jpg?fit=1202%2C912&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-12R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}