FAITH CAPSULE: Is your life of integrity before God?
Job 1, 2:1-10
To be identified by God or live life before God as integrity is not by a walk that is not right before God.
To answer as integrity before God is an empty mouth, a mouth full of the word of God but with no action that is rooted in the word of God. Also, a walk that does not count before God is with no integrity.
God identified Job as one full of the word of God by his walk before God as a believer.
Satan attempted Job, and his assault on Job was not enough to derail Job from walking in the Lord.
Is your life of integrity before God?
What is it that is against your walk before God?
From the first assault to the second, and throughout the whole life of Job, it was clear that Job was a man that does not deter from his stand in the Lord.
In all challenges of Job, the consistency with no compromising was consistent, serving God.
Serving God with consistency is the evidence of integrity before God.
The Bible describes Job as none any other character stating, “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.” (Job 1:1)
At a time of bad news, Job did not complain to God. Job 1:20 records the response of Job, “Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped.” As if the first assault was not enough, Satan attacked the second time with boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. After the first assault, God had testified about Job as a man that holds fast to his integrity (Job1:3).
The wife of Job knew that he was a man of integrity as she attempted to unplug Job stating, “…Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 1:9) Job refused not to abide by the statement of his wife in an attempt to unplug his integrity.
Living life before God as integrity is the way to regain from all adversity of the enemy.
The documentation of Job was recorded in Job 42:12-17 “Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning…In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job… After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. So Job died, old and full of days.”
God is faithful to one that is faithful to His name.
Prayer for God: With desire, ask to live the life of integrity before God.