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The Pursuit of Happiness Daily Devotional -10

by David Joynt on January 12, 2021


PHILIPPIANS 2:4 | 4 Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.  

One key humility practice is focusing on other’s interests. How will I bless my coworkers today? Which of my classmates or teachers needs a word of encouragement? Does someone around me need protecting? Whose reputation can I enhance? Whose skillset can I enlarge?

Prayer for others is a great start in developing this focus. It reminds us that Christians measure their lives not in terms of their individual achievements, but by the impact they have on others.

Stopping to marvel at other’s talents us one way to “count others better than ourselves,” and to overcome the inner ego drive for recognition, validation, and applause. 

Whose interests are you focused on?

Have you learned to pray for others and to celebrate their strengths?

 

Tags: pray, others, interests

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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