Job is a near-perfect example of a person who feared the Lord. If you want to know whether or not you fear God, note your reaction when good things are taken from you. How do you react to financial loss, the death of a family member, the loss of love? How many of us, after experiencing such intense suffering, would be persuaded that God is bigger than our suffering? Job certainly was. After losing everything, he said, “The LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HAS TAKEN AWAY; MAY THE NAME OF THE LORD be praised” (Job 1:21). Then,
