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Finale Revelation and Imagination Daily Devotional- 20

by David Joynt on June 25, 2021


REVELATION 3:19 | 19 I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.

PROVERBS 3:11-12 | 11 My child, do not despise the Lord’s
discipline or be weary of his reproof, 12 for the Lord reproves the one he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

God’s reproof is a sign of His love! Growth and development depend on finding flaws and misunderstandings and unhealthy habits. This is painful but necessary. The word for love here is “tender affection,” which never delights in correction but is unswervingly committed to helping us become our best selves.

Similarly, effective parents help children and youth identify their areas of struggle as well as their strengths. No athlete, scholar, leader, or disciple can mature without the practice of loving discipline.

How can we tell when discipline is motivated by love and when it is not?

Tags: love, discipline

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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