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Job Grow Through Their Eyes Were Watching God

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While studying God’s word, I would say that I find myself relating to Job’s story the most during this season of my life. Job is such a faithful servant of God and is not easily tempted by Satan, his friends, and other people within the story. The ways that Job images God is through his ability of not being easily persuaded from what he believes. He held on to what was true no matter what evil things Satan through at him. Job stayed humble and throughout the story he praised God when he prayed during the night. Despite his trials, he remained faithful to God and his word. Some of the ways that God uses Jod in this story is by telling Satan how great His goodness and faithfulness are. Through this Satan asked God if he could try and tempt Job …show more content…

Job’s strengths were not falling easy into temptation, staying true to he was, and trusting God. All of these are extremely important aspects for Job to live by because Satan took almost everything that was important to Job. Some of the weakness that is present during the story was show when Job asked God what he had done to deserve this punishment. Throughout this time, Job sort of blamed God for what was happening to him. This was hard for Job because in his eyes, and in God’s eyes, he did not have any faults and was blameless. This was an act of faith to see how strong Job truly was. Job succeeded in the aspect that he trusted God and was not easily tempted by Satan or his friends who were telling Job that he needed to repent for his sins. God was glorified through this situation through many ways. Job choosing not to give into the lies that Satan was telling him nor the lies from his friends are prime examples. This is such a unique biblical story in which God was bragging on Job. Because of this, Satan believed that God had blessed him and therefore wanted to put Job to the test to see if he would remain faithful to God. There are not a lot of stories in the Bible that tell a story similar to

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