Job 2:3 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

Job 2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

We know very little of Job’s wife. At this moment, rather than make assumptions about her, let us address what is shown in these scriptures. The common thread here in these two verses is integrity.

It sounds like God admires integrity. Satan now has an attack point, something God cares about, so his intention is to destroy Job’s integrity.

Job has lost his children, property, his health and now his wife. Rather than blaming a woman I do not know, let us say sin is at the root of this outburst. Sin has said “Your integrity didn’t save your children, your property or the life you once had. What good is it?”

If you have lost everything and integrity is all you have left, then it is everything.

What was integrity to Job?

Job 5:8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Paul put it this way.

Philippians 3:8-10 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

John 18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Jesus knew why He was born. He knew His mission. He knew the results of His work.

Few of us can say as much. My mother had an opinion of why I was born. I was no accident. I was left feeling that if my father had not been drafted into world war two, I never would have been born. While my mother intended on making me feel special, it did the opposite.

What is my purpose in life if I am nothing more than an accident of history? I didn’t feel special even if I was special in my mother’s eyes or my father’s for that matter. Nothing in how they raised me gave me any sense of purpose.

Many years later, after accepting Christ as my Lord, God intervened in my life with power and purpose. His hand stopped me from being killed by an eighteen wheeler running a stop light. I knew with every fiber of my being that it was God who spared my life.

Why did God spare me when so many others die?

I can only answer that question as a matter of spiritual service. The answer, if any, can only be found in God’s will. Do I know what that will is every moment of the day? No. I am lucky enough at times to see His will enacted and every time it turns out to be what He did, not me.

Some think that we will answer for what we did for Jesus in the end. I believe when that day comes, we will get to see what Jesus did thru us whether we knew it or not.