Thank you for the question, “Did Job love God with all his heart, mind soul and strength, if so, how?”
As I read the Book of Job, Job had a great reverence of and for God. The only person who loved God with his/her total being is Jesus Christ.
Job 1 says this about Job’s character, “In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil” (NIV). After the second test, the Scriptures records his response, “His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!” 10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said” (NIV),
Job was very conscious against sinning God or others. He recognized that the wealth that he obtained was a gift from God. Perhaps one can say that Job was one of the greatest moralist person who lived at that time. He believed in the existence of the Creator God and sought to live in a way that was according to his conscience.
Job’s questions about the purpose of God in allowing the trials to come upon him are not sinful. God doesn’t condemn him for his questions nor does God gives him the reason for the trials. It is amazing that God came to him and spoke to him directly.
As human beings, we too have questions about why certain events happen in our lives. We have the advantage of the Old and New Testament that helps us to understand the plan and purpose of God (Rom. 8:28–39). Job didn’t have the Law except for what was verbally transmitted from the descendants of Adam and Eve.
- Job mourned the loss of his sons and daughters.
- Job didn’t curse God when he loss his children.
- Job worshiped God despite losing nearly everything.
- Job didn’t assented to his wife suggestion to curse.
5. Job rebuked his wife for her suggestion to curse God.
6. Job prayed for his children and made sacrifices for them.
7. Job was honest with God in his questions about God’s plan for his life.
When Job was in the valley of his life, he didn’t love God with his whole being for as Elihu pointed out that Job was more concern about his own integrity than God’s integrity.
Job 34 says this, “Job says, ‘I am innocent, but God denies me justice.
6 Although I am right, I am considered a liar; although I am guiltless, his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.’ 7 Is there anyone like Job, who drinks scorn like water? 8 He keeps company with evildoers; he associates with the wicked. 9 For he says, ‘There is no profit in trying to please God.’
10 “So listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do evil,
from the Almighty to do wrong. 11 He repays everyone for what they have done; he brings on them what their conduct des ge of the whole world?
14 If it were his intention and he withdrew his spirit[a] and breath, 15 all humanity would perish together and mankind would return to the dust” (NIV).
Job was a blameless man seeking to walk rightly with God. He was not a perfect sinless man. Job repents in dust and ashes before God (Job 42:1–6).
Summary: No one can fully love God with one’s whole being but that doesn’t mean that one can’t love God. One day we will be able to love God with our whole being when believers are freed of this fleshly body which is prone to sin.
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