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Soul Songs January 7 Devotional

by David Joynt on January 07, 2024

Soul Songs January 7 Devotional

SUNDAY | JANUARY 7, 2024

EPHESIANS 5:18b-20 | 18b  but be filled with the Spirit, 19 as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, 20 giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

“Come Thou fount of every blessings

Tune my heart to sing thy grace.”

 

I struggle to sing in tune! One reason is purely musical, but the other is spiritual. It is easy under life’s pressures, its reverses and challenges, to become frustrated, anxious, or world-weary. At these moments my heart is “out of tune.” A portion of God’s grace in our lives extends to our emotional and spiritual infirmity. Robert Robinson, who at 22 years of age wrote the lyrics for Come Thou Fount, recognizes our tendency to detune and God’s ability to help us. God wants to lift and shift our emotions, and to enable our praise.

 

 

Does your heart need tuning today?

 

 

Gracious God,

Help me to sing and pray with passion, right emotion, and intelligence. Tune my heart for moments of true devotion.

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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