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Invitation, Week 1, Day 2

by David Joynt on October 07, 2019

Invitation, Week 1, Day 2

MATTHEW 11:28 | Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

I love the second half of this verse. The invitation does not carry conditions. It is not in the form of “if you do x, then you can come to me.“ If you achieve the right state of mind, if you learn the correct truths, if you make the right sacrifices, if you say the right words, if you do the right things, then you may approach me. No. Just come. Come if you are tired from the weight of your responsibilities or the weight of your own life. Come even if you don’t understand and you carry doubts or confusion. Come if you carry the weight of your past, if you’ve spurned opportunities and messed up your chances. Come if you carry anger or pride or selfishness or greed or inadequacy. Come if your ego is too large or too small. Come.

What burdens do you carry?

 

Tags: rest, burdens, weary, tired

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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