the question I was asked (part 1)

Man, what a week it has been, I started out so frustrated with the churches we have tried so far and with no idea where we would try next, yet in the middle of the week someone asked me a question that caused me to really get in the Word and what a amazing finish to the week. So here was the question in a nutshell (if God is a good God, Father to the fatherless, Giver of good things then why did He offer Job up to Satan the way He did, and secondly If you lose your children and then are given new children have you been "restored") I admit this is a simple version of the question(by simple I mean short: not easy to answer)yet as I went to read and re-read Job God began to teach me some things. So allow me to share some of my thoughts and what God has been teaching me. please feel free to respond both to the question and what I am about to share (honest I would love to hear your thoughts). Okay as I was reading Job and talking with everyone I could get a hold of these last few days, here are a few things that began to stand out. First I don't understand why God does some of the things He does (OK a lot of the things He does) but that is actually a good thing if I could understand everything God is and does He would be a pretty small God. Secondly I realized Job was way more spiritually mature than I am look at the way he respond after losing nearly everything (he did not lose God or His relationship with God) in Job 1:22 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. Wow what a response would I have responded like that had I been asked to endure what he endured? I can tell you that what I have gone through in life was nothing like what Job did and I have not always responded as he did. As I began to pray about this I was reminded of a few things in scripture like the story of three men who would not bow down to a idol there response was Dan 3:16-18 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. wow again a lesson in maturity whether God saved them or not they would obey God. When I face trials do I respond as these men did saying Blessed be the name of the Lord or no matter what I will follow God, I love Hebrews 11 but here are a few verses that really challenge me verse 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. God was not ashamed to be called their God, many times I have read Job looking at Job's faith in God, but look for a moment at God's faith in Job. God knew that he so completely had Job's heart that no matter what the devil did to Job He would remain true to God. It left me challenged by the question am I that committed to God, does He have my heart that completely could I say with Job "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him..." (Job 13:15)? There is so much more that God has taught me since I took this question to Him, and I know I haven't even begun to answer the actual question yet, but in a effort to keep this post from getting too long I'll pick up this up again tomorrow.