envelop spinner search close plus arrow-right arrow-left facebook twitter

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -26

by David Joynt on May 06, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -26

1 CORINTHIANS 13:6a | 6a it does not rejoice in wrongdoing.

Why would anyone take joy in wrongdoing? Well,  wrong doing roots in wrong thinking and wrong feeling. When others feel and think differently than we do, it is very easy to rejoice when they are “caught out” and proven to be in the wrong. We live in an age where opponents, be they intellectual, commercial, political, or religious, tend to lose their humanity. Schadenfreude is hard to avoid. In fact, gleeful celebration is the norm when enterprises tank, assertions are undermined, parties run aground, or competitor denominations fail. Agape love does not celebrate the tragedies that come from misguided reasoning, unwise investment, partisan irrationality, or religious confusion.

How disciplined is your rejoicing?

How do you resist taking joy in “wrongdoing”?

 

Tags: rejoicing, wrongdoing

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.

More from Pastor Joynts Devotionals

return to Pastor Joynts Devotionals