One of a Kind

Daily Reading:  Job 1:1 – 8

And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, 

that there is none like him in the earth 

                                    Job 1:8

        The Lord asked Satan to consider His servant Job. While we may find it odd that God would put Job in Satan’s crosshairs, have you ever paused to consider Job? Scripture describes him as perfect and upright. Those alone are high praise from an inspired book. These are God’s words not man’s words.  Perfect speaks of his purity and wholesomeness. He was a man of moral integrity. Upright expresses rightness or correctness that is pleasing.  This man lived his life with integrity, that others might follow. 

        Job was more than perfect and upright.  Those attributes were obviously the result of a man that feared God.  Job held the Lord in highest regard.  It was not lip-service, but genuine reverence.  Because of reverence, Job was turned off and withdrawn from evil.

        Job was a physically blessed man. He had many children, servants, and riches.   Despite all that he had, or perhaps because of all that he had, he never lost sight of God.  Job 1:5 shows Job’s great compassion and concern for the spiritual wellbeing of his children. He did not pass this responsibility to his servants or even to his wife. This was his responsibility alone, and he took it personally. Job continually offered burnt offerings for each of them. This is time well invested, because unbeknownst to Job, their lives were about to be cut short.

        Are you personally invested in the spiritual wellbeing of your children?  If you are not, why not?  if you do not have children yet, that invest in your own spiritual wellbeing so if God blesses you with children, you are equipped to invest in them...to lead them...to love them.  

        Job was one of a kind in his generation of the earth.  That does not mean God could not say of you, “there is none like him in the earth” in this generation.