Meditations On Job
By Jake Gardner
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“Hast thou considered my servant Job?” — Job 1:8
These staggering words of God, seemingly instigating THE SYSTEMATIC DISSOLUTION of Job, were in fact only manifesting the adversarial lust of Satan, who had been walking about in the earth (among God’s Church!) seeking whom he may devour (Job 1:8; I Pet. 5:8). Thus God, in order to glorify his own name, suggests the one in whom he doth most trust for Satan to tempt. So proving that the most tried saint, is often the most beloved. In this, God is staking His own glory, and His own name upon a venture: that Satan will go from His presence, try His servant Job, and — at last! — Job shall succeed! Thus confounding the rage of all principalities and powers in heavenly places, at how these by faith could love Him whom they have not seen (I Pet. 1:8), when they could not adore Him whose glorious majesty they were ordained to behold, and to cover!… And so God is glorified in the unseen realm of eternity, by the trials of His saints, and by their implicit loyalty to his sovereign rights and prerogatives over their ransomed souls.
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” — II Cor. 4:17,18
“Hast thou considered my servant Job?” — Job 1:8
These staggering words of God, seemingly instigating THE SYSTEMATIC DISSOLUTION of Job, were in fact only manifesting the adversarial lust of Satan, who had been walking about in the earth (among God’s Church!) seeking whom he may devour (Job 1:8; I Pet. 5:8). Thus God, in order to glorify his own name, suggests the one in whom he doth most trust for Satan to tempt. So proving that the most tried saint, is often the most beloved. In this, God is staking His own glory, and His own name upon a venture: that Satan will go from His presence, try His servant Job, and — at last! — Job shall succeed! Thus confounding the rage of all principalities and powers in heavenly places, at how these by faith could love Him whom they have not seen (I Pet. 1:8), when they could not adore Him whose glorious majesty they were ordained to behold, and to cover!… And so God is glorified in the unseen realm of eternity, by the trials of His saints, and by their implicit loyalty to his sovereign rights and prerogatives over their ransomed souls.
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” — II Cor. 4:17,18
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