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Like the work of a servant or a hired hand who's doing all this work and getting

nothing for it. It's like his suffering is totally futile. It's leading nowhere.

There's no reward. There's no hope. It's just discouraging work and that's the

end of the story. Oh, that's how suffering can often feel, isn't it? Like, what's the point

of this? Why? I think about even the journey our family's been walking through, just waiting

for a son that we can't go to overseas. It just doesn't make sense. Why? Why? Why? What's

the point of this? That's just one example. There's so many examples and so many more severe

examples that you have walked or are walking through. That's where Job, this book is so

helpful. It brings things to the surface that are so real. The Bible is not just a book

that glosses over the hard realities of life in a sinful world and it presents those

realities. And yet we know, we know from the whole book, the whole Bible and the whole

book of Job that there is reward coming. There's hope. There's joy in the end. I don't

want to jump ahead yet to Job chapter 42, but it's coming. And the reality is that is true

for everyone who trusts in God that suffering will not have the last word. And it won't

be futile. It won't be futile. Romans 8 makes that clear. I consider that our present

sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Glory reward

is coming. It's coming. So God, we pray, help us to keep our eyes fixed on your promises

and the hope of reward, the hope of glory to come when we walk through suffering. Even

in this world, God, the trust that you're working in ways we don't even see for good in

our lives, in others lives that we may meet and encounter and see or we may not, maybe totally

unknown to us. God, we trust you're doing good things and there's reward happening even

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