Job 5:6,7

Job 5:6,7 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Eliphaz seemed to be the spokesman of the three. He told Job that trouble didn’t just come up out of the ground. There was always a reason for a man’s trouble. Man just seemed to always get into trouble. But was Job’s trouble because he did something wrong? Or was Job’s trouble because Satan was giving Job grief? Temptation comes from Satan, but testing comes from God. Satan tries to get us to sin and to do bad things. But God’s testing is not to get us to sin. God tests us so that we can see what kind of a person we are. It is like a boy who lifts a barbell weight. He adds more and more weight until he can’t lift the weights. Then he knows his limit. He knows how much he can bear. And God tests us, just like that. God is not trying to get us to sin; God is wanting us to see how much difficulty that we can carry. But which is it? Are we being tempted by Satan or testing by God? Well, actually, we might never know. Testing from God and temptation from Satan sometimes both look the same. And so our response to either should be the same. We should do what is right either way. If Satan tempts us, we should do right. If God tests us, we should do right. Our response should always be the same: Do Right!