Recently, while in Job 1–2 in the M'Cheyne calendar readings, after recently working through Deuteronomy 28 with the family, I noticed how much overlap there is between Satan's own preferred attacks on Job, and the curses that fall upon the church for unfaithfulness. It really is an amazing parallel. I won't take the time just now to highlight all of the specifics in common between them, but would encourage you just to read or listen to both sections. What emerges, in the composite of two passages, is an implication that Satan would always attack us, except that the Lord raises Himself as a "hedge of protection" (Job 1:10) around us. How sweet it is to know that our God has given Himself to be our shield! And, how grievous it is, then, when our own unfaithfulness becomes the occasion for the withdrawing of that protection.
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