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The Pursuit of Happiness Daily Devotional -16

by David Joynt on January 18, 2021


PHILIPPIANS 2:13 | 13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

This is one of the most important verses in Philippians. It contains a great reassurance. We work out our own salvation! God gives us huge levels of freedom to make choices, carry out plans, establish relationships, and pursue ends of our own choosing. But we never work alone. 

God is at work alongside us. He opens doors of opportunity. He supplies friends and mentors. He gifts us insights. He grants us energy and determination. He provides insight through scripture and support via His great community of saints that crosses time and space. 

God is continually at work in us, for us, and around us.  

How is God at work in you?

Around you?

 

Tags: god, work, doors

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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