Daily Discipleship - Day 011: Have You Considered My Servant Job

May 3, 2026

Daily Discipleship • Day 011 • Saturday, May 9, 2026

Have You Considered My Servant Job

Job 1:6-8

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Scripture

Job 1:6-8 LXX Καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη, καὶ ἦλθον οἱ ἄγγελοι τοῦ Θεοῦ παραστῆναι ἐνώπιον τοῦ Κυρίου, καὶ ὁ διάβολος ἦλθε μετ' αὐτῶν... καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ Κύριος Προσέσχες τῇ διανοίᾳ σου κατὰ τοῦ παιδός μου Ἰώβ, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν κατ' αὐτὸν τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἄνθρωπος ἄμεμπτος, ἀληθινός, θεοσεβής, ἀπεχόμενος ἀπὸ παντὸς πονηροῦ πράγματος. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them... And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?"

Author & Audience

The Book of Job is one of the oldest texts in Scripture, possibly predating Moses. Its audience is anyone who has ever asked why a good God permits suffering for the innocent. The opening scene is a council in heaven — this is the architecture in which Job's pain happens. The book never lets us forget that human suffering is not a flat earthly affair.

Word Study

ἄμεμπτος

amemptos · Greek (LXX)

“blameless, beyond reproach, faultless”

Not sinless — Job is not perfect — but without grounds for accusation. The same word is used of Zechariah and Elizabeth in Luke 1:6. It describes a person whom an honest court could not convict. God uses it of Job in front of his accuser, which is the whole point of the courtroom scene.

Reflection

From the writers we read together

Ravi Zacharias

apologist who taught Christians to engage suffering with both heart and mind

“The hardest questions are not why we suffer, but who walks with us through the suffering.” — from his many lectures on the problem of evil, paraphrased

Zacharias used to say that the question of suffering is never answered abstractly — it is answered by the presence of a Person. Job's friends try to answer abstractly and fail badly. God himself never gives Job a philosophical solution. He gives Job an audience.

The terrifying thing about Job 1:6-8 is that Job did not know about the divine council scene while it was happening. Most of your suffering will be the same. You will not get to read the chapter from heaven's side. You will only get to be Job — and the comfort of the book is that the One who watches the council is also the One who finally speaks to you out of the whirlwind.

Deut 32 LensJob 1 is one of Scripture's clearest divine-council scenes. The sons of God who present themselves before the Lord are the same beings as Deut 32:8 — the heavenly council that Heiser argues we have flattened away. Read Job knowing the upper tier is real.

Continue your study: The Faith Walk — The Faith Walk is built for days when the council in heaven is hidden and only the storm is visible. Walk it slowly.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, King of the Universe, Lord, you watch the heavens in ways I cannot see. When my days look like Job's storm, remind me that the One who hears the accusation also speaks the verdict. Walk with me today as you walked with him. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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