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2020 Vision, Week 1, Day 5

by David Joynt on January 09, 2020

2020 Vision, Week 1, Day 5

2 CORINTHIANS 4:11 | For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.

Struggle can serve several higher purposes. It can make clear that our strength is not in ourselves., but that it is God who fills his clay jars with goodness, strength and glory. Our struggle, endured with faith, also demonstrates that the Gospel is not simply a success formula, a way to live a life that is higher and deeper. It also addresses our suffering and sorrow. Sometimes the power of God to sustain us in the hard times is the clearest evidence of the reality of our faith. Jesus’ life becomes visible in those moments.

How has God used your struggles?

Ask him to be visible in your weakness as well as your strength.

 

Tags: strength, struggles, weaknesses

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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