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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -23

by David Joynt on May 03, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -23

1 CORINTHIANS 13:4a | 4 Love is patient; love is kind.

Real patience is always kind. Sometimes I practice pseudo patience. I put up with someone or something but at the same time I make sure I show my displeasure or my disappointment or my annoyance. With a tiny sigh or even a look I can protest anything—even while, martyr-like, I patiently endure it.

In other words, I try to be patient while I am also being unkind! If we are making people pay a price for their behavior while we congratulate ourselves on “patience,” we do our faith and our friendships a disservice.

Are you kind while you are being patient?

Have you given up the practice of “silent protest”?

 

Tags: patient, kind

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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