Why Lord?

Job 1:8 (NKJV): Then 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, one who fears God and shuns evil?”

There are times in our lives when we come across someone who seems close to The Lord, but, there seems to be all these bad things that happen to him or her. Job is a great example of this.

Job was declared by God, “Blameless and Upright.” However, He went through all of these loses in his life, which, later included his health. When his  friends came to counsel him, they tried to say that maybe there was some hidden sin in his life. If that were true, then why didn’t God say so when He spoke to Satan about him?

It is sad to think that someone is suffering from some sickness or trial in their life because of sin or even a lack of Faith. We cannot say that this is the cause of why they are going through these things. Even God, when He spoke to Job and his friends, asked, where was men when He created everything, did man have any counsel in what He does?

This should be a reminder to us all that we cannot always know why people go through what they do. Sometimes there is not always an answer to these types of questions. What we should be doing instead, is asking for God’s Strength through these trials and sicknesses.