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Broken and the Blessed Week 3, Day 3

by David Joynt on January 24, 2017


Day 17

Exodus 18:13-24

A second sign of meekness, or strength conditioned by humility, is a willingness to take advice and appropriate criticism. In today’s passage Moses gets family advice from his father-in-law, Jethro, about leadership and the perils of concentrated authority. (Good leaders share their power and equip others). Accepting Jethro’s advice means acknowledging the failure of his own strategy and the shortcomings of his own approach. Moses does so without defensiveness - glad for the opportunity to improve as person and a leader.

 

Do you have this kind of meekness?

How defensive are you?

FAMILY TIME—

When has someone given you great advice? How did it help you?

 

Tags: devotional, meekness, 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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