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Stress Test Devotional April 30

by David Joynt on April 30, 2024


DEUTERONOMY 6:4 | 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.

Success can also blind us to the main goal of life: loving God with our whole selves and enjoying and serving Him in all our activities and relationships.

 

In other words, success as a life orientation has other shortcomings too, of course. It is comparative and unstable, for instance, and also short-lived. But its worst consequence, when it governs our outlook and efforts, is that we were meant for so much more! We were created to be agents of love and reconciliation, ambassadors for God, vehicles for a peace that passes understanding, and a justice that surpasses law and order.

 

Are your life goals large enough?

 

 

Gracious God,

Give me a fresh vision for my life. Help me spend my time and energy for great purposes.

Amen.

 

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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