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Body Building Daily Devotional - 62

by David Joynt on November 12, 2021


DEUTERONOMY 6:6 | 6 Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart.

The connection between law and love in yesterday’s verse and this direct statement today, reminds us of a basic truth. The law must not be for us an external standard or a set of lessons learned and forgotten. God’s will must become part of our identity. It must     structure our inner lives, we must carry it “on our hearts.” Things which we carry in our hearts have an immediate and present tense influence on us. To carry something this way is to consciously place it in the center of your focus and to treasure it.

Is God’s will key to your identity?

Do you carry His instruction on your heart?

 

Tags: identity, heart, god's will

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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