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Broken and the Blessed Week 3, Day 2

by David Joynt on January 23, 2017


DAY 16

EXODUS 3:10-11; 4:10-16

 This week we’ll mine Moses’ life for signals of strength conditioned by humility. It takes strength to see your own weaknesses and to face them honestly and openly. When God calls him to help lead Israel out of slavery, Moses raises some particular problems. How will I identify you to your people? How will I authenticate this calling and demonstrate you are with me? But then he gets personal, “I am a poor speaker, a slow stutterer!” Moses appeals for help and gets it, via his brother Aaron.

 

Is it harder to meet a challenge or admit a weakness for you?

 

Do you ask for help when you need it?

 

FAMILY TIME—

Is it hard or easy for you to raise your hand and ask a question when you don’t know the answer? Why is this?

 

Tags: devotional, humility, the broken and the blessed

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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