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New? January 23 Devotional

by David Joynt on January 23, 2025

New? January 23 Devotional

2 PETER 1:15a | 15a And I will make every effort so that after my departure...

 

This is a daring phrase. It is one of the greatest and most profound of human experiences to become useful and necessary. Our lives are much more meaningful when others count on us, for support, for inspiration, for guidance, or for leadership. Peter was a central figure in the launch of history’s most important movement. Like us, his sense of self was intimately bound up with his relationships and his calling. But he has the courage and imagination to consider the world after his departure. He asked the profound question, “what will the world be like without me!?” This question lends to him focus on a particular legacy that will outlast him.

 

What will the world be like without you?

 

 

Gracious God,

Grant me the courage to consider the world without me and to focus on a legacy that will outlive me.

Amen.

 

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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