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The Upside Down World, Week 1, Day 6

by David Joynt on September 15, 2017


EXODUS 20:1-4

 

Only “selling” gets the treasure and makes the acquisition of the Pearl possible. Some desires must be given up to make room for a single focus. Selling is not a condition for finding what is most valuable—this “finding” happens by God’s grace. But “selling all” is a condition for having the treasure. God brooks no competitors on the thrones of our hearts. He is never truly God when he is second or third in our inner hierarchy. The first commandments remind us of this necessary priority.

 

 

Do you know anyone for whom success is secondary to faith?

 

 

How can you tell?

 

FAMILY TIME—

How can we tell when someone has made God their top priority or their best friend?

 

Tags: faith, grace

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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