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Real Devotional 27

by David Joynt on May 27, 2022


JAMES 1:25 | 25 But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.

Finish this sentence: “you are blessed when…?” James is an excellent psychologist. He observes that we feel happy and blessed when we know we are walking on the right path toward a great destination. In life we can be lost and following our own paths to an ultimate dead end. Or we can be following God’s direction and heading toward a deeper and greater life of joy and fulfillment. God’s law, or direction, has as its purpose, our flourishing and perfection. As we understand and apply it, we gain a confident sense that God is walking in and around us to bring out our best, heavenly selves.

Are you freer now than you were 5 years ago?

Are you delighting to know and follow God’s instruction?

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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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