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Day 49: Understanding

Form a prayer of praise. Pray that prayer at different points in your day.

by David Joynt on May 28, 2016

Day 49: Understanding

ISAIAH 66:1-2


What is encouraging is also humbling. Some things God could tell us are beyond our understanding. Some truths we hold on to will not make sense to others in a confused world. Truth is real—but we need guidance to find it! Knowledge also, is not mere intellectual understanding—because truth is connected to the glory of God and His son. If we understand truly, we are drawn toward worship, and we experience joy and awe and wonder.

Form a prayer of praise. Pray that prayer at different points in your day.

Tags: devotional, encountering, understanding

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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