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Under Construction, Week 8, Day 55

by David Joynt on October 04, 2019

Under Construction, Week 8, Day 55

JOHN 14:2 | In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.  If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

This verse feels so intimate.  Home is about relationships and rather than describing his return to Heaven in grand technological terms, Jesus uses a homey metaphor.  I go ahead to add on to my family home for you.  You will have a place in my family compound.  It is the presence of one that that loves and cares for us, that
protects and blesses us, that accepts and welcomes us, that calms our fears.

Jesus’ departure had deep meaning.  The ascension signifies the rule of the King, the presence of human experience within the heart of God, the office of the Great High Priest.  But it also means that Jesus is looking forward to unlimited, intimate family time with us.

How intimate is your relationship with Jesus?

How often do you sense his presence with you?

 

Tags: heaven, love, family, heart, relationship, presence, ascension

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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