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His physical suffering, although he's talking about that and all these lost and just the pain

and the hurt. But specifically, he starts at the beginning of this chapter talking about

young people. He says, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to

set with the dogs of my flock, how even they are mocking him and they abhor him.

They stay away from him or they see him, they spit, they spit at the sight of me.

So Job is clearly reflecting here on the reputation. So Job is clearly reflecting here on

all of the effects of the suffering on his reputation. How this is brought dishonor upon him.

And he's lamenting this in a way that I trust we can all relate to like we may say we don't

live for the pleasure or acclaim or honor of others. But it stings when our reputation is

harmed, dishonored, slandered. When people see us and want to spit on us, like that kind of

hatred, abhorrence is the word he uses. And I don't think we naturally want that. Like we

desire to be honored. And some of this is good in a way that reflects upon God. Obviously,

some of it can be very selfish or sinful or self-centered to want to be honored in certain

ways. And so when I read Job 30, I'm just driven to pray in a fresh way that I would and for

all of us that we would live ultimately for an audience of one that no matter what anyone else

says about us, no matter what ways we might be slandered or even spit upon. Like I think about

a good friend of mine, pastor, I was talking with just yesterday and I had someone spit in his face

and call him a label that is totally absurd. And the person who did this was in the church.

And I just, as I listened to him and him talk about just his own processing of that, I thought

in my own life, God help me. God help us. Let's just pray. God help us to live for your honor

above all. God, we pray for a John 330 type desire for Jesus you to become greater

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