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Under Construction, Week 7, Day 45

by David Joynt on September 24, 2019

Under Construction, Week 7, Day 45

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. 

This verse implies something we all know: we are currently incomplete and unfinished.  This truth comes home to us in various ways.  We realize that some of our dreams and ambitions are out of reach.  Circumstances and events foreclose some possibilities.  Time, moving always forward, makes some decisions irreversible.  We discover limits to our days, our abilities, and our resolve.

Or we experience persistent struggles with particular personal challenges, that we can fight but never conquer.  The person we want to be seems always out of reach.

How have you sensed incompleteness in your life?

How have you come to terms with it?

 

Tags: struggles, challenges, conquer, incomplete

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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