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Invitation, Week 1, Day 3

by David Joynt on October 08, 2019

Invitation, Week 1, Day 3

MATTHEW 11:29 |Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Teams of oxen that plowed the fields were “yoked,” together and tied together, so that they could move and work in tandem. With these words Jesus invites us to do life together. When he says, “come to me” he does not want us for a moment, for an hour, for a day. He wants to do life with us now and always, from this point forward.

His invitation threatens our sovereignty. If we accept then we are no longer the queens and kings of our small territories. But how this invitation honors us. Jesus wants to do life with us! Step by step, minute by minute, challenge by challenge, the setbacks and trials and triumphs, through boredom and excitement. He will be devastated if we turn him down. He invites us with the intensity of a lover, with the hope of a parent, with the affection of a dearest friend.

Do you feel honored by the invite?

 

Tags: rest, sovereign, relationship

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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