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Day 13: Assurance

Is your relationship with the Shepherd intimate? Do you have voice recognition?

by David Joynt on April 22, 2016

Day 13: Assurance

JOHN 10:22-29

Jesus encountered skeptical Jewish worshipers in the Jerusalem temple. In this moment, He reveals another key to assurance for us: intimacy. “My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me.” Disciples develop voice recognition. They know the timbre and the tone and the sound and the content of the Shepherd’s voice. Assurance for final things develops as we hear and follow now. The trust that in the end we will not perish, as He promises, comes from responding to His directions and seeing His instructions bear fruit and bring blessing in our daily living. We come to sense His voice will not let us down, and our intimacy with Him cannot be broken.

  

Is your relationship with the Shepherd intimate?

Do you have voice recognition?

 

 

 

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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