[The Glory Unveiled]
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.” [ Job 2:9 NIV ]
Often, we carry carefully formed opinions about who we are—until life puts us on trial. It is in the furnace of experience that the truth about us is revealed. The specialist who administers such tests answers to many names, but in this line of work he is best known as the Accuser of the Brethren—Satan himself. In the opening chapter of Job, Scripture tells us that Satan was roaming to and fro upon the earth (Job 1:7). When Job’s name was brought before him, Satan challenged the integrity of the man God had commended. He sought permission to test Job, not to refine him, but to invalidate God’s testimony concerning him. Permission was granted, and the testing began. What followed were trials so fierce and relentless that few would have survived them. Yet when the fires had done their work, Satan found no fault in Job. Just as Jesus declared, “the prince of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me” (John 14:30), so it was with Job—Satan found nothing of himself in him. No hidden allegiance. No compromised loyalty. But while Job stood firm in the flames, someone else was exposed. The fire that failed to consume Job revealed what lay buried in the heart of his wife. The pressure uncovered her true attachment—not to God, but to the things that had been lost. In much the same way, when Paul gathered sticks and laid them upon the fire on the island of Malta, the heat did not invent the serpent—it exposed it (Acts 28:3). The flames always reveal what was hiding beneath the surface. So we must ask ourselves: What would the fire expose in us?
What is that thing—comfort, status, security, relationships—that could rob us of our integrity? What might tempt us to trade faithfulness for relief, or devotion for preservation? That very thing may be what costs us fellowship with God, just as it did Job’s wife. The fire is not sent to destroy the faithful—but it will always reveal where our hearts truly rest.
Prayer_Bead: Father, thank you for the grace to continue to have a working relationship with you. Help me not to trade my integrity on the bed of material things. In Jesus name.
Wisdom_Quote: The value of your integrity is determined in the day of adversity.
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