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The Upside Down World, Week 1, Day 5

by David Joynt on September 14, 2017


ROMANS 1:24-25

 

Sin is disordered desire. It is confusion in the way we value people, things, and activities. Once we value things in the wrong way, it will lead us to spend our time and energy and resources in the wrong way. Sensual pleasure, for instance, becomes obsession and distraction and dissipation, rather than a gracious gift and a joy.

 

The blessing of a supreme Good is that it can order our desires and give our life coherence. Rather than being pulled from one thing we want toward another in a long search for satisfaction, we begin to allow all our lesser loves to serve our great love for God.

 

 

Desire makes a good servant and a bad master. Do you agree?

 

FAMILY TIME—

Talk about how your family establishes priorities.

 

Tags: love, priorities

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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