Piggyback Blessings

We’re introduced to Job in the same book that carries his name… Job. We find that he was “blameless, upright, fearing God, and turning away from all evil”.

He had been blessed with many children, livestock and servants and he was called “the greatest of all men in the east”.

Even Satan had heard of Job and accused God of “building a hedge (of protection) around him and blessed the work of his hands and his possessions have increased in the land”.

Let me point out that nothing is said about the righteousness of Job’s sons and daughters or even of his wife and yet they shared in Jobs blessings by being of his household. Let me suggest a concept here… it’s possible to piggyback on the righteousness of others and share in their blessings with out any effort on our own part.

Also notice this God gave Satan permission to do anything he wanted to except for the taking of Job’s life. So, Satan didn’t waste any time killing Job’s 10 children and only spared Job and his wife. I wonder why Mrs. Job wasn’t killed too? It might be because Job was “one flesh” with his wife and killing her would be as close as you could get to killing Job. My guess is that even though her righteousness is not mentioned she was bound to be a righteous person as well by virtue of her oneness with Job.

So what does this mean for all of us? We might look at our own blessings and assume those blessings are based on our own righteousness when they may not be at all… we may just be kind of tagging along spiritually. Maybe a little spiritually lazy… always content to live in the shadow of others.

Job was a mountain of a man spiritually and cast a huge spiritual shadow and many were blessed living in his shadow. That’s great… bully for Job, but let’s step out from whosever shadow we may be standing in and let the sun shine in our faces and make our own shadows.