Just for Ladies by Camille Stahl

Today’s Passage –Micah 1 – 4 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – click here to view the text from the Blue Letter Bible website)

(Second Milers also read – Revelation 7 – 9; Psalms 121 – 125; Proverbs 25)

Scripture Memory for July – Philippians 2:1 – 18

Listen to this morning’s Scripture song – Psalm 61:1 – 3

The Study of Women in the Bible

JOBS WIFE

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. (Job 2:9-10)

Job and his wife lived in the land of Uz. She and her husband had wealth. Her household contained many servants. She had seven sons and three daughters. They were all wealthy. But the greatest of her blessings was her husband, Job. Job was a man who loved God, and served Him whole heartedly. The depth of Job’s spiritual life resulted in a pleasant atmosphere in their home. Job’s wife at this time had a comfortable life.

Then something remarkable took place in heaven. Job was the subject of a conversation between God and satan. God was pleased that Job, a man on earth, loved Him voluntarily. Job was fulfilling the purpose for a which God had created him, fellowship. Then satan, the accuser approaches God. Satan felt that the reason Job was devout was that he was prosperous and suggested that if prosperity was withheld he would turn from God.

One blow after another. Job lost all his wealth. But the greatest catastrophe of all satan destroyed all of Job’s children. Everything Job had built over many years was gone in one blow. The richest man in the entire East was suddenly poor and without children. All that was left to him, besides his home, were four servants and his wife. Satan had done his work thoroughly, but he still hadn’t achieved his purpose.

Satan and God talked again about Job. Let me touch his body to see if his faith will still hold. Satan cursed him with boils. Then came the worse blow of all. His wife turned against him. Job’s help meet turned for the worse. Job needed her more now than ever before. Job’s wife’s reply was “Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.”

We criticize Job’s wife for turning on her husband and wanting to die, but can you feel her pain? Everything she had plus all her children were taken form her. Losing one child is hard enough, but ten all at once. Now don’t misunderstand, she was wrong in what she said, but can you feel for her? She failed to go to the only one who could ease her pain.

Like many, she had been blinded by satan. She failed to understand that trials and troubles come to all. From these trials and troubles comes greater faith if we don’t give in to satan.

When satan throws his fiery arrows of temptation, use your faith like a shield, stopping them. Job proved that no one is tempted more then they can handle and that God does give a way to escape in the midst of every temptation.

In the times we are living in today, it can be very trying. With the prices of everything, and families losing their children to the world, troubles are inescapable.

Will you keep the faith and cry out to God for help or will you curse Him and die? God loves you and and wants to grow your faith. He want to doubly bless you as He did for Job and his wife.

In the critical hour of her life, Job’s wife said no to God. How about you?

Thank You

1 John 5:13

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Phil Erickson

Pastor Phil Erickson has been the pastor of Jersey Shore Baptist Church since January of 2002. Having grown up in Ocean County, Pastor Phil has always had a burden for the south Jersey area. After graduating from Bible College in Longview, Texas, he and his family moved to Galloway Township with the vision of digging in and serving the Lord and the people of Atlantic County. Pastor Phil and Cindy Erickson have been married since 1985. They have four children and ten grandchildren. Their oldest son, Phil Jr. and his wife Katelyn are serving the Lord in Egg Harbor Twp., NJ. Their oldest daughter, Melissa, is married to Wesley Clayton who is in the Air Force and is currently stationed in New Mexico. Samantha, their third child, is married to Justin Mears and they are both serving the Lord at the church in Galloway. Hannah, the youngest, is married to Lucas McCollum, and they are also serving here in Galloway. In preparation for ministry, the Lord led him through a variety of educational experiences that have equipped him to serve the Lord and His people. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Georgian Court University, a Bachelor of Biblical Studies in Pastoral Theology from Texas Independent Baptist Seminary (formerly Texas Baptist College), a Master of Religious Education in Bible from West Coast Baptist College, and a Master of Biblical Studies from The Crown College. More recently, he completed a Graduate Certificate in Biblical Counseling and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Veritas Baptist College. He is thankful for these opportunities to study God’s Word more deeply, and counts it a privilege to use whatever knowledge the Lord has given him for the building up of His church. In addition to pastoring, the Lord has given Phil the wonderful privilege of teaching as an adjunct professor at Vision Baptist College in Berlin, NJ and Veritas Baptist College.