+DEV+ Why Do YOU Serve God?

Date: June 12, 2013 9:53 PM
Topic: +DEV+  Why Do YOU Serve God?

Why Do YOU Serve God?

"'Does Job fear God for nothing?' Satan replied." (Job 1:9)
Scripture Focus: Job 1:6-12

Do you love God for who He is or for what He does for you? Do you receive God's grace apart from any human effort, or does your behavior effect how God loves you? These are questions the book of Job helps us resolve.

Satan thought the only reason Job loved and served God was because God had richly blessed and protected him. Satan believed that if that hedge of protection and those material gifts were re-moved, Job would surely curse God and die.

God allowed Satan to take everything precious to Job except his life (and presumably, his wife). When Job heard of the death of all 10 of his children on the same day, he blessed the name of the Lord - albeit through grief - reminding us that the same good God gives and takes away.

As the book of Job unfolds, we see Job come to understand grace. Just as we don't serve  God for all the good things He does for us, so too, God doesn't love us for all we do for Him. Salvation is the gift of a personal, eternal relationship with Christ whatever 
the circumstances.

Insight: There is no greater gift God can give than to give Himself!




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