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Job‬ ‭7:20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?

When bad things happen, some people blame God. They’ll blame God for causing the accident, they’ll blame God for the sickness, or they’ll blame God for allowing their loved ones to die. Like Job, most people don’t consider the real enemy behind all our misfortune.

In Job 1 and 2, we see that Satan was behind all the bad things in Job’s life. Initially, Job didn’t blame God (Job 1:22), but by Job 7, he began to identify God as the problem.

Unlike Job, because of Jesus, we have power over the enemy (Luke 10:19). We can take authority over every unfortunate situation and align it with God’s word. Matthew 18:18 says, whatever we ‭forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever we permit on earth will be permitted in heaven. So, if we don’t like what’s going on in our lives, we can stop it and make it better.

It’s not God behind the problems in our lives. It’s Satan. And since we have the power over him, we might as well use it for God’s glory and for our good.