Made of Steel

As I read the book of Job, I began to create an analogy between Job and Asahel. Let me start with Job:

Though the storms, Job told God, "Only two things do not do to me... Withdraw Your hand far from me, and let not dread of You make me afraid." Job didn't want to lose his focus. He didn't want to get off the path God has destined for him. He also thought of something tough to guard his thoughts, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there." Job toughens his thoughts in the battlefield to keep blessing the Lord's name through it all.

When Asahel was in the pursuit of Abner. He chased him with the full focus, ignoring Abner's urging voice. Abner told him to take a shelter for he doesn't want to make Abner's brothers mad by killing him. But Asahel didn't even turn aside to the left nor to the right. Thus Asahel died by Abner's spear. And this story was written.

Job's thoughts were toughened through the voices of his three friends. He knew that he may lost everything, including his life, but he believed that God may respond. And so the Lord did! He answered Job out of the whirlwind and He restored Job twice as much as he had before. Job didn't die like Asahel, but he sure ran like him in the battlefield of thoughts.

Instead of letting the Satan defeat us by throwing us down, let us stand firm in our blessings. Let us remember that we are blessed to have clothes to wear, food to eat and the Body of Christ. Let us tell the Satan, "If we are sick, so what. If we are homeless, so what. If we are lonely, so what. If we are incapable of something, so what. For we came naked and we shall go back naked." That will keep the Satan away when he learned that you are made of steel.