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Belong & Become, Week 2, Day 13

by David Joynt on March 13, 2020

Belong & Become, Week 2, Day 13

JOHN 14:19 | 19 In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.

The life we cultivate as we grow our relationship with God is HIS life. It is not an improvement or betterment of our own ordinary human life. It is not biological life elevated through a deeper moral sensibility, a wiser intellectual perspective, or a wider social angle. It is zoe, divine life. It is his holy righteousness, his total truth, his complete love.

The purpose of Jesus’ presence in our lives is to make us creatures fit for heaven—examples of a new humanity, shining with God’s glory and goodness. It is not to increase our niceness, although if we don’t grow nicer and kinder and more thoughtful, it is probably a sign we have not invited him into our lives, or we are limiting his spirit.

How do you contrast ordinary and divine life?

 

Tags: humanity, growth, purpose

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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