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Broken and the Blessed Week 3, Day 1

by David Joynt on January 22, 2017


WEEK 3

DAY 15

MATTHEW 5:5

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”

 

Meekness is power under control, strength disciplined by humility. Moses was a very, very strong leader. It took strength to accept the call to liberate a people held in slavery. It took strength to fool the Pharoah. It took strength to rally the people not to panic prior to the parting of the waters at the Red Sea. It took strength to climb Mt. Sinai and enter into the presence of God. It took strength to accept the complex roles of liberator, judge, leader, prophet and intermediary between Yahweh and the Israelites. It took strength not only to get the slaves out of Egypt but also to get Egypt out of the slaves and to forge a new identity in the wilderness. It took strength to deal with sedition and rebellion. Yet Moses is described in Numbers 12:3 as “the meekest man on the face of the earth.”!

 

What in Moses’s life took the most strength, in your view?

 

FAMILY TIME—

How many kinds of strength can you think of?

 

Tags: devotional, meek, the broken and the blessed

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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