How many of you have felt like cursing God and just giving up?  I have.  There have been many times where I've felt as if everything was crashing down on me and I just wanted to give up on everything.  I wonder how Job felt at this point in time?

Job had everything.  Money, animals, a great wife, many children, servants, everything.  He was the wealthiest person in the world.  The Bill Gates of his day.  But all that changed when Satan walked into heaven and told God that Job would give up on God if God would stop blessing him.  

So God allowed Satan to take away everything that Job had.  His children, animals, servants, everything.  Job was now poor, but still he honored God.  So Satan said to God, "He still has his health, you let me plague him, he will give in, he will give up."  So God allowed Satan to inflict Job with boils from his head to his feet.  And here we find Job sitting on the ground with broken pottery cleaning away the puss coming from his boils, when his wife comes.

Now here comes an interesting twist.  There are two ways in which his wife could have said this.  First way; she's an angry woman, she's lost her children, her money to buy clothes and shoes with, and her husband is outside with boils.  It would make sense that she would say "Curse God and die!" if she were angry right?  But there is a second way; she feels sorry for her husband.  She is concerned, she feels his pain, and doesn't say it with anger but with sorrow.  "Curse God and die."  Do you see the difference?

Either way, Job responds, "You are talking like a foolish woman.  Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?"--Job 2:10  Job understands that in life God blesses tremendously.  But there is a reason when things aren't always going well.

When one becomes a Christian, life should get more difficult.  Satan doesn't want people to be true Christians, so he will inflict what he can upon those people.  The Christian walk is not an easy walk to start out on.  Job knew this, he knew that God had His reasons and Job was determined not to give in or give up on His faith in God.

So if everything is falling around you, and you have nowhere to go and you're ready to give up.  Just remember, don't give up on God.  There is a reason for this, maybe you're being stretched, maybe it's so you can grow closer to God.  I don't know, but don't give up on Him.  Job didn't, and he was blessed with double what he started with.  Check it out, Job 42:12-16.