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Leading With an Honest Heart: Day 2

Use Psalm 51:1-5, 10 as a prayer of confession. Are you honest with yourself?

by David Joynt on August 08, 2016

Leading With an Honest Heart: Day 2

Jeremiah 17:9
Psalm 51:1-5, 10

Spiritual growth is a process of cleansing your heart. The prophet Jeremiah asks, rhetorically, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, beyond cure, who can know it?”

Honesty and transparency are not native to our hearts. We instinctively want to protect our reputations, projecting an image that will “win friends and influence people.” Success and social pressure shape what we say and choose not to say. Facing our  own dark hearts and seeking forgiveness from God is an ongoing practice that helps us achieve honesty with ourselves.

Use Psalm 51:1-5, 10 as a prayer of confession.

Are you honest with yourself? 

Tags: honesty, 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.

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