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Broken and the Blessed Week 5, Day 4

by David Joynt on February 08, 2017


DAY 32

MATTHEW 6:12

This beatitude is the only one where the promise corresponds to the state, the merciful receive mercy. This is captured succinctly in the Lord’s Prayer petition for forgiveness—“Lord, forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” What is pictured is a cycle of mercy, in which we are forgiven, we forgive others, and our practice of forgiveness enables our reception of more mercy from God. Mercy begets mercy.

  

What would our lives be like without mercy?

FAMILY TIME:

Why are grudges a bad thing?

What happens to us when we hold a grudge?

 

 

Tags: beatitudes, comfort, devotional, mercy, 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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