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Thank God it's Monday Devotional 7

by David Joynt on September 10, 2022


COLOSSIANS 3:24 | 24 since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord Christ.

EPHESIANS 6:8 | 8 knowing that whatever good we do, we will receive the same again from the Lord, whether we are enslaved or free.

Seeing yourself as a servant who works for God is inherently rewarding. It frees us to do our best without our identities being absorbed into our work. It makes our relationships with others deeper and more meaningful. It reins in our egos and gives us a way to measure success that is independent of the sometimes arbitrary ups and downs of our careers. It gives work new significance, placing it into the sweep of salvation history.

All this and also the promise of final rewards from the Lord of life!

What is most rewarding about your work?

Ask God to help you be a servant today.

Tags: work, servant

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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