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Broken and the Blessed Week 3, Day 4

by David Joynt on January 25, 2017


DAY 18

EXODUS 17:4; NUMBERS 11:10-15

Moses prayed his frustrations. Our frustrations are unique to our personalities. Moses shone in the moments of crisis and calamity and confrontation, besting Pharaoh, drawing water from a rock in the desert, and manna from heaven to stave off starvation. But what drove him crazy was complaining! The everyday grind of dealing with the same people who had the same issues tried his patience. He shared this problem with God, who knows a great deal about long-suffering patience! How we pray is a great test of our emotional honesty.

 Sometimes the everyday challenges are harder than the big crises. Do you agree?

 What aggravates you in your daily life?

 Pray some of your frustrations.

FAMILY TIME—

If you could change one thing in your family life what would it be?

 

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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