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VS. March 25, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on March 25, 2025


1 TIMOTHY 6:18-19 | 18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous, and ready to share, 19 thus storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the
future, so that they may take hold of the life that really is life.

 

There are two things we do bring from this world to the next: Our character and our Kingdom deeds. Our greatest gift to God is finally ourselves, formed by faith and obedience, ready to be changed from glory into glory, prepared for life in the new heavens and the new earth. Our deeds also we’ll offer to God, they are the fruits of our new life in Christ, and they’ll be our proudest possessions on the day of Judgement. They are proof that we have followed our Savior, however imperfectly, trusting in his final grace.

 

These two elements are connected. Acts of charity now form us for eternity and are a cause for celebration in the life to come.

 

Do you sense God forming you for the life to come?

 

 

Gracious God,

Help my charity to be real and tangible, so that good intentions lead to gracious acts of sharing and compassion.

Amen.

 

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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