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Everlasting November 17, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on November 17, 2025

Everlasting November 17, 2025 Devotional

LUKE 12:32-34 | 32 Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The contrast between devotion to personal accumulation and success, and devotion to God’s kingdom does not imply that temporal investments are always evil in some way. Temporal investments, with wise use of our creative capacities, our energy and efforts, and our capacity for leadership, can empower eternal investments! Temporal resources can drive kingdom purposes. God is pleased to “give us the kingdom” with its transcendent experiences of joy and love, when we exercise generosity and make strategic investments in His work. In so doing we become like Him, for He is the “giver of every good and perfect gift!”

 

Is God giving you an experience of His kingdom?

 

 

Gracious God,

The blessed life awaits those who become blessings to others. Help me to embrace it with faith and expectation.

Amen.

 

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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