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Day 27: Peace

Are your disobeying God? Do you see the connection?

by David Joynt on May 06, 2016


JOHN 14:21-24

Jesus wants to encounter us and share His deep peace with us. But He also warns us that obedience and commandment keeping are deeply connected to peace and assurance. When we are disobedient with our parents or employers, we are instantly uncomfortable in their presence. We feel alienated from them.

The same is true with God. Disobedience leads to distance and our sense wanes that we are adopted children indwelled by the Holy Spirit and under renovation. We see less of how God is working in us and around us.

 

Are your disobeying God?

Do you see the connection?

 

 

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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