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Everyday Saints Devotional 58

by David Joynt on February 28, 2022


LUKE 8:44| 44 She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his clothes, and immediately her hemorrhage stopped.

We don’t choose suffering. We do choose how we will respond to it. We can become martyrs. We can endure with a dignified resignation. We can submit to God’s will, trusting in an eventual healing. We can fight and seek a cure. The unnamed woman, with her perpetual hemorrhage, showed great persistence in pursuing a treatment. Continual disappointment did not stop her. When Jesus the healer came around she used the sizable crowd as cover and trusting in his power, grasped his garment. This took faith and courage. The cure was instantaneous.

Difficulties can make or break our characters and our faith.

What difficulties have shaped your character so that you more closely resemble Jesus?

Tags: character, difficulties

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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