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The Pursuit of Happiness Daily Devotional -5

by David Joynt on January 07, 2021


DAY 5

THURSDAY | JANUARY 7, 2021

PHILIPPIANS 1:6 | 6 I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.

You and I are works in progress. Sometimes we can’t see the progress, and it feels as if we are struggling with the same challenges and vices again and again. That is when this verse becomes so very important.

Paul knows the Philippians have their issues. Two women are in a perpetual conflict, as we learn in 4:2. There are false teachers besetting the community in 3:2. There are trials and outside pressures, see 1:28-30. But he is convinced God is at work in their church and their individual lives and that our heavenly Father finishes what He starts! Clarity, wholeness, integration, maturity will be ours. Hallelujah!

Memorize this verse.

Where do you sense progress?

Where do you feel stuck?

 

Tags: start, finish, progress

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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