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Broken and the Blessed Week 6, Day 3

by David Joynt on February 14, 2017


DAY 38

JOHN 14:18-21

 

Although purity is a struggle, particularly in our cultural context, it is also an investment in a greater knowledge of God. Our knowledge of God is not a disembodied set of free-standing facts, but a participation in His reality. As we obey God, we know Him more fully and experience Him more deeply, growing our awareness of His presence and activity. God honors our struggles for purity and rewards us, increasing our capacity for genuine enjoyment and sharpening our best and truest desires.

 

The final petition of the Lord’s prayer, translated literally, is “lead us around temptation and deliver us from evil.” Pray this as your theme for today and watch how God honors it.

  

FAMILY TIME:

Use the last petition of the Lord’s Prayer as a basis for discussion. What kinds of temptation are you experiencing?

 

Tags: deliver, purity, tempation

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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