When Everything Falls Apart | Job 1:1-2:10 Series

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When Everything Falls Apart | Job 1:1-2:10

How do you respond during a calamity in your life? Last month there was a landslide in Munnar, Kerala and 52 innocent people lost their lives and 25 are still missing. What wrong did they do? Is this suffering justified?

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken the lives of approximately 850K people worldwide as of now. Innocent people are dead because of a pandemic. Then there are other calamities that come upon the earth: Earthquakes, hurricane, tornado, volcanic eruptions, tsunami and so on where 1000’s of people die. Then there are personal calamities we face like job loss, death of a loved one, fatal sickness and so on.

So, how do you respond during a calamity? Is it fair for the righteous to suffer?

Virtually, every one of us will experience a bitter calamity and loss in life at some time or the other in life. And it is at such times that our world falls apart.

When Everything Falls Apart | Job 1:1-2:10

Today we are going to look at the right responses when we suffer.

How to face life when everything falls apart?

Calamities may seem certainly absurd, meaningless and undeserved. You may cry out, “Why” a hundred times. That is why the book of Job is so relevant, because Job’s suffering seems to come out of nowhere and have no connection to his character. His story is recorded for us because God wants to use it equip us to endure our calamities and suffering. We are to not just endure them but we are to worship God in them and to bless God in them.

Today we are going to look at the first section in the book. Job 1:1-2:10

Job is introduced in Job 1:1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

The name of this person is Job.

Job is a real person, living in Uz. It is perhaps associated with Edom, south-east of Israel. He is a foreigner, not an Israelite.

Job is blameless.

He is upright. His character and actions are good.

Job feared God. He behaves according God’s expectation and enjoys God’s favor.

Also, Job shunned evil.

Finally, Job is a man of integrity. Job 2:3

These five qualities of Job puts him as the one of the righteous man in the OT. He is far above Abraham, Noah, and even Daniel.

These are not words of sinless perfection. Job is not in the divine realm, but it is the best that a person or human can be. Job fears God and he takes God seriously about what is known about God. So Job is in the highest possible standing with God.

If suffering was intended as a punishment for evil, Job is not a very good candidate for calamity. Job is a good man. He fears God in all he does.

Job Was Extraordinarily Blessed

Job 1:2-3 2He had seven sons and three daughters, 3and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.

Job Reveres God And Loves His Children

In Job 1:4-5 illustrates Job’s reverence for God and his love for his family.

Job 1:4-5 4His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.

Job Was Extraordinarily Jealous For The Name Of God

Cursing God can be thought of in a variety of ways

Using God’s name in a frivolous/joking way or oath

Also, Using God’s name with illicit words of power

Thirdly, Using words of power against God.

Speaking in a denigrating, contentious, or slanderous way about God.

Insulting God.

Holding God in contempt. (Stating explicitly that God is powerless to act or that God is corrupt. Making God less than God.)

If any of his children had taken the name of God in vain in the party the night before, Job would cover that before God with a sacrifice. Job also wants to plead for his children before God that none of his children would fall away from God’s ways.

Then, the calamity came:

Job 1:13-19 13One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 14a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 16While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”