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Everyday Saints Devotional 59

by David Joynt on March 01, 2022


LUKE 8:45-46 | 45 Then Jesus asked, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds surround you and press in on you.” 46 But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; for I noticed that power had gone out from me.”

Jesus seems to ask a silly question, because it is unknowable. In a jostling crowd, where people are bumping up against each other continually, dozens of people have touched him.

But Jesus has acute perception that this is more than an accidental contact, it is a purposeful touch in hopes of a cure. He comments that power has “gone out of him,” indicating that his healing acts all cost him some spiritual energy. The woman does not want to ask a rabbi to touch her and become unclean, but she has touched the hem of his garment.

How perceptive are you about the needs and intention of
others?

How well can you sense when your energies are being drained?

Tags: others, needs, energy

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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