Satan wants you to curse God

By Nick Bibile

Job 2:4-5

Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. [5] But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will CURSE you to your face.”

Job was a godly man who lived probably during the time of Abraham. God blessed him with wealth.

Satan told God Job will curse God, if God allow Satan to inflict Job. And Satan did great damage to Job, when all his property were destroyed, then later when all his children were eating and drinking and a great wind came and killed them all. Now Job lost all his wealth and all his children. How will you react if a similar thing happens in your life? What was the response of Job?

Job said the following.

Job 1:21

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”

Now the worse came, when Job was inflicted with painful boils from head to foot.

Then Job’s wife told him what Satan wanted.

Job 2:9

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.”

But Job said to her:

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

At the end God healed Job and blessed him more than what he had in the beginning.

Today many are influenced by Hollywood movies, and when troubles come they curse God. Is this a good example?

God’s name is holy. In the Ten Commandments God said:

Exodus 20:7

“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

How many fall into the trap of Satan, cursing God when troubles come, even using our Lord’s name - “Jesus “in vain.

We need to read the book of Job, how we can learn a lesson and endure during troubles and hardships. We can only endure hardships through God’s strength in prayer and by his grace.