Mr. Perfect

Once again we read about a great man, which was very righteous and was deeply loved by God. I am even starting to think that maybe God is like that with all of us, always helping us and everything, only we just don’t realize. Really, why would there be a different between them and us? Ok, maybe there’s many, but the point is that he probably cares for him as he cares for us. That’s why I believe this is wrong: “Job…was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” (Job 1: 1) How could that possibly be? I thought no one was perfect, but it suddenly seems like there is an exception, Job. I really don’t understand. But just like all of us, he is tempted by Satan, but because he has such a strong faith and is so keen to God, he is in a way protected and even though Satan’s things might sound right, he was strong enough to ignore them and just follow God.

Then we see the truth, the reality. At last we see how Job shows that he is not perfect. After all the pressure he was under, not only by Satan, but also from others, he like it was supposed to happen, he gets mad, feels confused to the point where he actually curses God, but because he was so great and actually fell sorry, he went back and repented for “then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped” (Job 1: 20).

Once you actually really think about it you can actually understand their different point of view. God like any other powerful superior someone would want to have someone so faithful to you that there was some sort of bond in between, to the point where God thinks that “there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?” (Job 2: 3) Satan I bet would also love to have someone like him, but because he is so mean, he just doesn’t.

On the other side, one can really notice the advantages of being Gods favorite. As Job says: “For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me” (Job 6: 4). This shows power, protection and in a way love. Job was really faithful and that made him be very perseverant, which at the end made him be able to be so perfect.