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Broken and the Blessed Week 4, Day 1

by David Joynt on January 29, 2017


WEEK 4

 

DAY 22

MATTHEW 5:6

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”

Hunger and thirst are hourly reminders of our creature hood and our need. As you get ready to climb to the summit of Piestewa Peak the sign warns “Take water - hikers die every year from dehydration.” Try to forget about your physical hungers, or thirsts and there will be immediate ramifications - and probably lots of rumblings in your stomach. But spiritual needs can be neglected and set aside easily, through busyness, distraction, or deliberate choice.

 How focused are you on your own spiritual development, your growth in righteousness”?

 How do you know when you are growing closer to God?

 FAMILY TIME—

What is the hungriest time of day for you? How is your mood when you are hungry? What is the time of day you are most spiritually hungry?

 

Tags: devotional, righteousness, 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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