Contemplative Bible Reading

Job 1:18-19 (New Living Translation)

¹⁸ While he was still speaking, another messenger arrived with this news: “Your sons and daughters were feasting in their oldest brother’s home. ¹⁹ Suddenly, a powerful wind swept in from the wilderness and hit the house on all sides. The house collapsed, and all your children are dead. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”

Satan did this. Satan spoke with God and then went about making Job’s life miserable. One thing Satan did was cause a powerful wind to sweep in from the wilderness and hit the house where Job’s family was feasting.

Simple: use the weather to bring misery into the lives of people.

It is easy to go too far with this. I can blame every cloud in the sky and every inopportune drop of rain on Satan. Still, I can be blind to Job’s experience and say, “Oh, well. That’s just the weather.”