Bible Verse of the Day Monday October 18th 2021

Job 1:12 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger." Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

Satan most certainly bothers and troubles believers in Christ Jesus. We should never underestimate him or the powers he possesses. He is not some strange fictitious character running around in a red suit, carrying a pitchfork. Never give him more credit than he is due, (2 Corinthians 12:7). This verse speaks of the Apostle Paul talking about a messenger of Satan that was sent to him to trouble and bother him. Satan was the primary force behind all the suffering and loss that Job went through. Satan can and will physically affect our lives; however, his most powerful weapons are the fiery darts that he shoots into the tender recesses of our heart, which is the untruth about God that he comes against our faith with. There will be a battle we must fight with Satan every day we are in this life.

Some believe Satan wealds more power than he does, which plays right into his self-delusion. Satan is powerful but not all-powerful; there is only one that holds that supremacy and control: God Almighty. Paul tells us that Satan is the “god of this age” and that he has blinded the eyes of unbelievers, which are under the power of Satan, although they don’t recognize or understand it (2 Corinthians 4:4).

When we accept Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior and place our faith and trust in Him, He will save us. Once this happens, we are no longer slaves to Satan; we are free from the bonds and chains of Satan and sin. We then become new creations in Christ Jesus and can share in the victory over the enemy that Jesus won on the Cross of Calvary.

God must grant permission to Satan to bother and afflict us, as was in the case of Job, as we have seen in our opening verse. Satan is a created being, created by God and under His infinite control. Satan is a tool of God, and when God allows him to afflict a believer in Christ Jesus, it is for God’s glory and our good (Romans 8:28).

This occurs so all believers in Christ will want to rely on Jesus to continue the work of sanctification that God started at our conversion. So that all children of God will work every day of our lives to becoming more like Christ Jesus. We will never see that day here in this life, but one glorious day when Jesus wraps us in His loving arms and says, “welcome home, my child,” we will realize it has all been worth the battles we fought in this life.

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