Daily Devotion — Job 1:8 — Our Identity in Christ

Have You Considered Job

Is our Identity is in Christ? Are we what we have? Are we what we do? Are we what others say about us? No. The truth is we are naked, having nothing and able to do nothing. God is our sustenance, our one and only mirror in which to see who we are. And because of Jesus, like Job we are blameless and upright before God.

The Book of Job

We sometimes read the Book of Job as a story about a cosmic battle between God and the enemy where God serves up Job to the Adversary like a ball in a tennis match. However, if we take a careful look at the Prologue, we see Satan already knew all about Job’s life before God ever mentioned Job, already had a target on Job’s back, and already knew what he was going to do to him. Their interaction is not about God giving Job over to Satan. This interaction is about the Adversary of God setting up a way to falsely accuse God. We think of Satan as accusing us. We think of the Adversary as being against us. The story of Job shows us Satan is actually accusing God, and we are Satan’s pieces he uses to set up his game. To the Adversary, we are nothing more than a strategy he uses. Job isn’t a story of God and Satan as equals fighting it out to see who will win, and us getting caught in the crossfire. This is a story of an impotent enemy…