Are we like Job and claim our calamity is from God when it is from Satan?

 

 Job 1

8 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, one who [reverently] fears God and abstains from and shuns evil [because it is wrong]?

9 Then Satan answered the Lord, Does Job [reverently] fear God for nothing?

10 Have You not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have conferred prosperity and happiness upon him in the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

11 But put forth Your hand now and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face.

12 And the Lord said to Satan (the adversary and the accuser), Behold, all that he has is in your power, only upon the man himself put not forth your hand.

 

Job 2

 

6 And the Lord said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.

7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with loathsome and painful sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

8 And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself, and he sat [down] among the ashes.

9 Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast your blameless uprightness? Renounce God and die!

10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the impious and foolish women would speak. What? Shall we accept [only] good at the hand of God and shall we not accept [also] misfortune and what is of a bad nature? In [spite of] all this, Job did not sin with his lips. 

 

So we see that we, like Job and his wife, blame God for the world's  calamity, when it is Satan who fills our world with destruction and sickness.

And what else do we do?  We blame the evil of people's lives for their calamity, saying like Job's friends that he has reaped evil for his evil.  Yet that is not so. I agree that evil begets evil, but that does not mean that those who do no evil will still not receive evil in their lives.

How many times have people asked; why have good people fallen, or received death or evil in their lives?

We can see by God's Word that Satan causes destruction and not God. 

It is for us to study God's Word and seek His wisdom and truth.

Will you?