Job 1:7 “And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
Satan works daily along with hidden demons to trouble
those that belong to God through the salvation that God has so graciously
bestowed on us. When we study the word of God on Satan, we learn that he has
many names, the devil which means the slanderer, the tempter or one who entices
Christians to sin, the evil one or the one who is the source of sin, then there
is the liar that is the deceiver of truth, murdered because he the killer of
life, God called him the god of this world because he has dominion over the
people or rulers of this world, he is called a dragon because of the manifestation
of the power of Satan, and while there are many more biblical names for Satan
God gave him one more name we need to pay close attention to, and that name is
Roaring Lion.1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the
devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” God
called him this because he is “walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
This is why when God spoke with Satan in Job 1:7 he said he was “and said,
From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” As
a hungery Lion seeking out his prey. I am sure when God suggested a more
favorable target like Job, whom God said, “Hast thou considered my servant
Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?” Satan was like a hungry lion
looking at the best piece of meat he could have ever been given to him.
However, Satan is like so many they forget that God is Omniscient, and God knew
the outcome. God never gives up His people, His servants without deity
protection. However, God did not need to ask Satan what he was doing, God
already knew that Satan was walking as a roaring lion seeking prey. But who
exactly is Satan’s prey, it is Christians and churches, why, because he has the
lost blinded already toward God and Truth. The lost are like dry bones to
Satan, they have no meat because they have been blinded and dead since birth.
Satan wants meat on those bones, he wants to hurt and devour as many of God’s
people that he can, this is why he was overly excited when God offered up Job.
The word “devour” does not mean that Satan wants to cause us trouble, it does
not mean this very hungry wants a leg or an arm, the word “devour” means - to
drink down, that is, gulp entire, swallow (up). Satan wants to totally control
you heart and mind again, he wants to laugh at God that he has swallowed up one
of His own. God allowed Satan to take almost everything Job had, about all he
had was a wife that told him, “Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still
retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.” Job 2:9 But all that Satan put
Job through, even turning his wife against him, he kept his “integrity”, God
said of Jobs integrity in verse 3 of chapter 2 “my servant Job, that there
is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth
God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity,
although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.” Do not
be so hard on Jobs wife, her faith and integrity were not as strong as her
husbands, in fact God said of Jobs integrity “there is none like him in
the earth,” not even his wife. Satan uses the weaker around us in his
effort to devour us, just as he did with Adam. So, what was Jobs answer to his
wife, but he said unto her, “Thou speakest as one of the foolish women
speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we
not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.” Job
2:10 Therefore, instead of Job allowing himself to be devoured by Satan,
he remembered that no matter what, I will stand with the Lord, because all that
I have was a gift from God. Therefore, Job said if Satan takes it all, “And
said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the
LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Job 1: 21. We all need to remember, as Paul wrote “But by the grace of God I
am what I am:” no more and no less, God has made me what I am only as He
has elected. Beloved, we all need to “Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil…” because we are all Satan’s prey and he is looking for
our weaknesses and any kink in our armor, and crack he can slither through, to make
us prime prey for him to stop our walk long enough to devour us. Satan never
stops walking because God said he knows his time is limited therefore, his walk
is constant. Beloved, be careful, remain alert, examine all things, and make
sure God’s will is in it, and pray much.
