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Day 24: Peace

Thank God for your adoption today. Pray for those who are without family support.

by David Joynt on May 03, 2016

Day 24: Peace

JOHN 14:18

When Jesus promises to reunite with His disciples following his impending death, He uses a telling phrase: “I will not leave you orphaned.” A child without parents is a tragedy, and I am grateful for VPC’s involvement with orphans in the Valley and in Malawi, supporting group homes and providing resources for food, education, medical care, and nurture. Try to imagine your own life without parental care!

Yet in a profound spiritual sense, we are all orphans until we seek adoption into God's family. No one belongs to God’s clan automatically by reason of birth or caste or achievement—but we enter into full fellowship with God by faith and through our relationship with Jesus. He reassures His friends that once they were adopted by Him, He will never revoke their status and leave them alone.

 

Thank God for your adoption today.

Pray for those who are without family support.

 

 

 

 

Tags: devotional, encountering, peace

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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