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The Week That Changed The World Devotional March 8

by David Joynt on March 08, 2024


MARK 14:9 | 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.

The anointing was valuable to Jesus, given the hard path He had to walk toward the cross. It also became valuable to the Christian movement around the world! This unnamed woman has inspired acts of devotion from untold numbers of people who have read this account in Mark’s gospel. What looked like one isolated expensive moment became an act of beautiful devotion that has had a perpetual ongoing influence. This certainly changes our pragmatic evaluation of it. Some extravagant gifts have great repercussions.

 

We don’t always know how our acts of devotion will be used by God. Do you agree?

 

 

Gracious God,

Use the small things I give and do today for Your greater 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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