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God Is Everything

Job had it all. He had the family, the wealth, the life everyone dreamed of. He had everything that the people of his day considered a life blessed by God because of his righteous living.  He had lived perfectly for God. Job had everything.  For many people, life is about success, achievement, having the prettiest car, having the nicest house, being the best mom, being the best wife, being the best housekeeper… blah blah blah! If you have all that then God must be blessing you for living rightly before Him. Right? For some it may be living a righteous life that brings them satisfaction, knowing they lived for God as they believed they should. None of it is bad in itself but I think we humans can take all of this "blessing" stuff a bit far and I know that we all have different opinions of what "being blessed" is. For Job, it wasn’t about being blessed or about the things he had gained, the success he had achieved, the righteous life he lived but it was about t