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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -25

by David Joynt on May 05, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -25

1 CORINTHIANS 13:5 | 5 Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.

Resentfulness roots in an attitude of entitlement. Since life should conform to my wishes and fulfill my desires, when it does not I am entitled to feel hard done by, cheated, and unfairly treated. Irritability is the reaction of resentfulness to someone else who does not conform to my vision or accept the way I want things to go. Life would be so much easier if everyone just accepted my views and followed my instructions! Right?

A loving person learns not to keep approaching every interaction as a zero sum game, with one winner and one loser. He or she does not keep insisting “my way or the highway!”

What irritates you?

What things do you resent?

Are you ever stubborn unnecessarily?

 

Tags: stubborn, resent

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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