Job 1:6-12
God Allows the evil one to Seek Job
6 One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. 7 The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
12 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”
Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
John 9:1-3
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
God allows things...He allows hurricanes, tornadoes, death, grief, disease, babies being born blind and with afflictions, and troubles...God allowed the evil one to seek out and find Job...The evil one would wreak havoc in Job's life...
One must assume that God allows these things for glorious, wise, and holy ends...Sometimes we are told that these things happen so the works of God might be displayed...God alone knows what good there are in these unsettling things...
And God allows that good people should suffer for well-doing, for their honesty and for their faith...It seems that Job was a blameless and upright man and God allowed him to suffer...And Jesus tells us that a man who had been born blind was not the cause of his parents or himself...So God must have allowed this man to be blind...So we know that the best of men are not exempt from suffering, as Jesus suffered and would die on the cross...And we know in the end that God's will gets done...