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Divine Imperatives November 25 Devotional

by David Joynt on November 25, 2023


MATTHEW 7:27 | 27 The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!

 

Notice the parallel—both the homes built on the rock of Jesus’ words and the houses built on the sand have to go through storms. Followers are not guaranteed storm proof lives, just storm proof dwellings. The rain, the floods, and the wind blow on everyone’s house. In one case the home abides to see the sunshine. In the other it is utterly destroyed.

 

To my knowledge, no other teach or prophet speaks in terms like these.

 

 

How firm is your foundation?

 

 

Gracious God,

Nothing lives you do not sustain. Nothing grows you do not help plant and water. Nothing lasts you do not touch and save. Help me remember this.

Amen.

 

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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