envelop spinner search close plus arrow-right arrow-left facebook twitter

Leading With a Growing Heart: Day 4

What changes around you do you find challenging? What was the greatest period of adaptation in your life? Pray for good judgement in changing circumstances.

by David Joynt on June 15, 2016

Leading With a Growing Heart: Day 4

PSALM 119:65-66

Another reason why God wants our hearts to grow has to do with our environment. Has anyone noticed how fast the world changes? As the externals shift, the internals must respond. A key characteristic of human beings is our adaptability—and this is another word for our capacity to grow. Change around us can feel unwelcome, but it can promote growth within our hearts and minds.

Adaptation, notice, is not conformity to environmental change. Some changes in value and practice must be criticized and challenged and not simply adopted.


What changes around you do you find challenging?
What was the greatest period of adaptation in your life?
Pray for good judgement in changing circumstances.

Tags: courageous, leading

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.

More from Pastor Joynts Devotionals

return to Pastor Joynts Devotionals