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Invitation, Week 3, Day 21

by David Joynt on October 26, 2019

Invitation, Week 3, Day 21

MATTHEW 6:21| For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

We become what we do. If we lie, we become untrustworthy. If we tell the truth, we become more capable of honesty. Acts of love and generosity are not isolated incidents, they shape our souls and identities. We can become loving and generous people.

In the end, the gift we give back to God is the gift of ourselves. It is the character, the personality, the faith and hope and love we develop now, in this life, that begins to make us creatures fit for eternity.

Now this process is completed when we are transformed by his power in ways we can barely imagine. But it begins now. Think of yourself and life as a gift you are giving to God, a treasure meant for heaven.

In what ways are you becoming more like Jesus?

Read 1 John 3:1-2 as a promise and a hope.

 

Tags: love, faith, trust, hope, character, heart, treasure, gift, transformation, honesty, trustworthy

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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