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Day 15: Direction

Is loving like Jesus the central ordering principal and purpose of your life? How would someone watching you know this?

by David Joynt on April 24, 2016

Day 15: Direction

JOHN 13:31-38

Something has to be central! Otherwise, if everything is equally important, life becomes episodic. Attention and energy is focused here, and then there, and then somewhere else. Purpose gives way to experience and time does not yield growth of accomplishment. Everyone who wants a meaningful life must establish a hierarchy of values. 

In this encounter, 12 have become 11, and Judas has left Jesus and his brothers at the Last Supper in order to betray them. What is important in relationships? That we love one another as Jesus loves us.

Is loving like Jesus the central ordering principal and purpose of your life?

How would someone watching you know this?

 

Tags: devotional, direction, encountering

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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