Shall we accept good and refuse to accept evil?

“But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.” - Job 2v10

In the next round of this heavenly battle the Lord allows Satan to afflict Job’s body with terrible, painful boils from head to foot.

With this things get even worse. His wife wonders why he keeps going on with such integrity. Even more than that she suggested that he simply curse God and die.

Job’s simple response is classic – “Should we expect only to receive good from the Lord and not bad as well?” Job understood that God works in ways that he could not hope to understand. He knew that God has every right to give us either good or bad in our perception, it is totally up to Him.

In this entire situation Job did not sin with his lips by blaming God.

There is a saying, “You have to take the bad with the good.” This is true when it comes to God’s dealings. All He does is for ultimate good – even when it does not seem that way to us.

No matter what is happening, let us be sure that we don’t sin with our lips by putting the blame on God.