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The Pursuit of Happiness Daily Devotional -37

by David Joynt on February 08, 2021


PHILIPPIANS 4:11 | 11 Not that I am referring to being in need; for I have learned to be content with whatever I have.

Among the hardest works of Christian maturity in modern Western culture is contentment. Our advertising and marketing strategies aim at creating discontent with our current products and devices, so that we will focus on new and better versions. Unfortunately, new and better versions keep appearing all the time! This puts us in a state of perpetual discontent, materially speaking. 

One wise savant said, “contentment is not getting what you want, but wanting what you have!”

How content are you?

Does some of your discontent relate to anyone else’s standard of living?

 

Tags: content, discontent

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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