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Invitation, Week 3, Day 16

by David Joynt on October 21, 2019

Invitation, Week 3, Day 16

MATTHEW 6:19 | Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth.

The key question with accumulating treasure is hidden in this verse.  Do not store up treasure FOR YOURSELVES. Treasure you earn for God and others is different from treasure we store up for ourselves.  If we succeed and flourish to burnish our egos, we are storing for ourselves. If we do so to impress others or to demonstrate our superiority in the “rat race” then we turn into rats. If we imagine that property, real or intangible, is a safeguard of our lives or a guarantor of happiness, we are deluded.

What motivates your success?

 

Tags: success, treasure, flourish, egos

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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