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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -22

by David Joynt on May 02, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -22

1 CORINTHIANS 13:4 | 4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant.

Talk about a transition from the sublime to the every day, from the spectacular to the mundane! One moment Paul is discussing mountain moving faith, heroic martyrdom, sacrificial philanthropy, comprehensive knowledge, and heavenly speech. The next he is talking about common virtues and the daily challenges to character and relationships.

 Yet, God came from heaven to earth. Jesus told us to live with our focus on each day’s demands and issues. Saints only become holy in the context of jobs, families, and the pressures and problems of daily existence. Love cannot be just a heavenly ideal, it must take root in actual life.

 How rooted is agape in your life?

 Are you good at focusing on each day’s challenges?

 Do you think of each day as one opportunity to grow in the art and practice of love?

 

Tags: love, agape, practice

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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