There was a man

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil. – Job 1.1

Job lived long before man had the law, or the Bible, our a local church, or any of those blessings that we have today. How can we expect someone who lived all that time ago to have any kind of relationship with God?

I don’t know it happened, apart from direction intervention of God, but here we find an example of a man from those early days of history who ‘feared God and shunned evil.’

That sounds so basic doesn’t it?

If indeed it is so basic, why do so many of us struggle with it today? Job had it right without the benefits of the thing mentioned above. He had no Bible to read. He had no pastor to preach. He had no church to fellowship with and encourage him. He had no Christian friends to edify him.

But he still knew enough to fear the awesome power of God and to turn away from evil.

We have all those things and all our theology and Bible teaching and outreach and all those good things we know and do, but we still can struggle with fearing God and shunning evil.

Actually the two go hand in hand. If we truly fear God for who He is we will shun evil. If we do not shun evil we have to question if we really fear God.

Fearing God and shunning is a good start for all of us.