Who started the fire?

  I remember a message that asked a question, who started the fire?  As the message started and points were made, I thought: that's just life.  Ups, and downs, and everybody goes through them.  Then the question was asked, who starts them?  Satan was his answer. The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:  I am come that they might have life,  and that they might have it more abundantly. JOHN 10:10(KJV).

  I like the illustration that is given in JOB.   Life was going along well for Job.   he had kid problems, to much party time.  Job sacrificed for his children, but everything else was well,  he was the greatest man of the east.
  One day God called all of the angels (righteous and fallen) together for a meeting (JOB 1: 6-12).  And asked Satan, what have you been up to?  God knew.  Satan replied,  " Going to and fro, and up and down the Earth."  God knew that he was doing:  destroying what ever he could.  God asked Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job?"  Satan replied, "He only serves you because You have given him much."
  God gave permission to Satan that he could do anything to Job but kill him.  Satan did a great job of setting fires in Jobs life! He killed his children, and his livestock;  burned his house, destroyed everything.  Still Job served God.  God called a second meeting of the angels and asked Satan the same questions: " Where have you been?  What have you been doing?"  Same reply as before.  God then said have you considered Job?  Satan replied " skin for skin" if his life is in the balance he will deny You.  God said you can do whatever you want, but you can't take his life.  We know the story: Job suffered much; his entire body was covered in boils!  His wife and friends told him he would be better off to curse God and die. It sounds like a forest fire in Job's life to me.
  At the end of the story, we find that God blessed Job with more then he had before all of the trials that he went through.  Did he believe that his trials would produce wealth? No!  He knew that in all his ways if he kept his Faith in God,  that God would direct his paths.  It's the same now as it was then;  tests come.  Trust in the LORD with all your heart;  and lean not on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths PROVERBS 3: 5-6 (KJV)