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Stress Test Devotional May 9

by David Joynt on May 09, 2024


PHILIPPIANS 1:6 | 6 I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

 

Soul growth relieves stress because it works on a different timeframe. Other kinds of growth operate on limited schedules and short timeframes. Opportunity knocks—and then it doesn’t! “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, if taken at the flood, leads on to fortune…” omitted life is bound in shallows and miseries.

 

Soul-growth is different. We have our entire lifespan to grow our souls and an eternity to enjoy their eventual perfection. The one who began good work in us will bring it to completion. Meanwhile, every step now is progress toward that day.

 

Do you feel under constant pressure?

 

 

Gracious God,

Thank You that we have a lifetime to grow and an eternity to live. Help me to remember the timeframe for my soul.

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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