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Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Job 18:1-21
In seeking to crush their friend, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar work away without realising that they may shake his faith in God.
To accuse someone like this is the way Satan usually works. Not only does he attack the believer before the LORD, as we have seen him do in ch. 1 and 2, but he also accuses him from within himself by instigating doubts – "You do not have the true kind of faith! You are not saved! You can see that God is forsaking you. If you were a child of God, you would not behave like this."
And as these first doubts are sown, they lead to others, for the Enemy uses them to whisper again, "Since you have doubts, that is proof that you do not have faith; a believer cannot doubt."
Let us vigorously turn away these "fiery darts of the wicked". How can we do this? By using the "shield of faith", in other words, by simple trust in God and in the promises of His Word (Ephesians 6:16).
Bildad refers to the king of terrors (v. 14). This is death, an ever-present threat, towards which every man must direct his steps without knowing when he will meet it. But for the believer it is no longer a dreaded thing. In meeting death of His own free will, Jesus rendered Satan, who had the power of death, powerless (Hebrews 2:14).
