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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -8

by David Joynt on April 18, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -8

1 CORINTHIANS 13:2 | 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

 Life is not fair! Some people get all the breaks. If only I had been 6’5” the NBA might have beckoned. If only I had been born into a wealthier clan or been connected to the right circle. Success is so elusive, so dependent on the gene lottery, the family circumstance, the chance opportunity.

 But what if every person has exactly the same opportunity to be worthwhile? What if the value of the pauper and the billionaire are determined without reference to dollars? What if the famous and obscure life are on the same footing?

 No matter our circumstances or genetics everyone has the same chance to live lovingly.

 What achievement do you most crave?

 How much of your focus is on becoming more loving?

 

Tags: loving, focus, achievement

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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