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Under Construction, Week 7, Day 44

by David Joynt on September 23, 2019

Under Construction, Week 7, Day 44

PHILIPPIANS 1:6 | 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.

God is the initiator.  We may seek him, but not without his prompting. Before we were born he was fashioning us for relationship with him.  He shaped our possibilities and our opportunities, reaching toward us in circumstances and events.  He created a salvation story into which we can fit, revealing his will and ways in scripture and the life of Jesus.  He communicates with us through others and in the quiet recesses of our minds.  On the outside and the inside he is doing a good work for us, with us, and through us.

How have you sensed God at work in you?

When did it begin?

 

Tags: salvation, opportunity, communication, relationship, seek

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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