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Everyday Saints Devotional 2

by David Joynt on January 03, 2022


LUKE 17:16 | 16 He prostrated himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan.

Physical healing is a great blessing! For a leper it meant the end of ostracism and isolation and the return to society and normal life. Instead of living in mandatory isolation and announcing your uncleanliness with every public appearance, he was now able to return to family life, work, and worship. His dire health prognosis was over and the spiritual stigma of feeling cursed had ended. Physical healing was a great blessing.

But not as key as what happened when gratitude pulled him back to thank Jesus. He prostrated himself, and this means adapting a worship posture. Healing is good, connecting with the great Healer is even better!

Have you ever been left out or ostracized?

Have you ever experienced healing?

 

Tags: healing, ostracized

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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