God stepped in and made all things right.
I am sure you have heard the expression, “Saved by the skin of my teeth!” Well, believe it or not, it comes from the Bible. Satan said there was no good man on earth, and God said, “What about Job?” Satan challanged his loyality by saying if everything was taken away from Job, he would not follow God. So God told him to do what he would to Job, but Satan could not take his life. So Satan killed his ten children, He lost all his flocks, and herds, and his wife left him after she told Job to curse God and die. To add insult to injury, Job was given leprosy. Job thought it couldn’t get much worse, until his friends came by every day and told Job he must have been a very bad sinner to be punished like this. They tried to convince him he was being punished by God, instead of Satan. When all was just about lost God stepped in, because Job never turned away from God. Job makes the statement: the Lord gave and the Lord hath taketh away; Blessed be the Name of the Lord. No matter how bad things got Job never lost his faith. Job said: “ My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.”
That statement would be like the shot heard around the world. Every time someone escaped something grave they would quote that statement. Little did people know that they were quoting the Bible. The sad part about this is they didn’t know the rest of the story. God stepped in and saved Job and restored everything the Devil had taken from him. Gold, Camels, servants, sheep, and cattle. God even restored the number of children he had; ten!
You may be wondering why I have gone off in this direction? Well, I want you to think about how many times you have made that statement, and how serious was your escape from disaster? How did you get out of your delimia? Was your close call saved by what you feel more comfortable in calling Fate? Is it possible God saved you by the skin of your teeth? Did you even bother to thank Him?
As parents we need to teach our children that only good things come from God. But when bad things do happen, God will always be there to give us strength to see it through: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
We as authors often have our heroes rescue someone in dire straits. The fact that they saved someone is what made them the hero. Don’t you think that God deserves to be the Hero in our lives, for all the times He has saved us? And what about his promise to save us from eternal damnation? All we have to do is ask!
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:20
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Psalms 55:13-20