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Day 26: Peace

What is God renovating in you? Is this exciting or disturbing? Grace is God’s willingness to live in homes that need work! Do you agree?

by David Joynt on May 05, 2016

Day 26: Peace

JOHN 14:20, 23

Peace comes to us through personal experience and conviction, through a sense of intimacy with God, and the knowledge that He is at work not only “out there” in the world, but “in here” in my heart and soul. This is expressed in the indwelling and home language of our verses today. We can experience a sense of being “in” Christ, and Christ being “in” us. Jesus employs the image of “making a home within us.”

I think of this in terms of the popular reality TV programs which involve home makeovers. The sign that God dwells within us is that the rooms of our soul get renovated. Our thought patterns shift, our goals change, our vocabulary is different. Our emotional landscapes include green pasture and still waters.

 

What is God renovating in you?

Is this exciting or disturbing? 

Grace is God’s willingness to live in homes that need work! Do you agree?

 

 

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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