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Real Devotional 6

by David Joynt on May 06, 2022


JAMES 1:4a| 4a and let endurance have its full effect,

What do you give the person who has everything?! This is a real problem in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley! Usually the best thing we can give someone else is ourselves. It is our time, attention, interest, and love that really blesses others.

What do you give the God who has everything? The God who quite literally doesn’t need anything and who is utterly fulfilled in Himself? Again, the best gift is yourself! We do offer God our service and obedience, our prayers and our praise, but in the end we offer Him ourselves. As we endure trials and grow through them we are perfecting that final gift.

Give someone the gift of your best self today.

Pray that God will continue to work in you.

Tags: god, work, gift

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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