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Broken and the Blessed, Lent Day 31

by David Joynt on March 31, 2017


DAY 31

2 CORINTHIANS 11:22-29

 

In my experience, many Christians have trouble trusting God with their past errors. They believe forgiveness is real but don’t take the next step of faith. They do not ask God to use their dead end moments to teach, train, and prepare them for new opportunities. Saul could not have been the Apostle Paul, unless he had first been an enemy of God. His concern for the Gentiles, his Torah steeped grasp of the Gospel, his pastoral capacity—all of it is unimaginable apart from his mistakes. 

 

God is always preparing us for something. Do you agree?

 

FAMILY TIME:

Do you dream about serving God?

What do your dreams look like? 

 

Tags: forgiveness

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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