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VPC 2.0 Daily Devotional-9

by David Joynt on October 12, 2020


GENEIS 17:3-4 | 3 Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, 4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations.”

 Now this encounter with God floored Abram. After nearly 100 years of living, his sense of the world was settled, his life had been patterned, and now he was asked to start anew. It is one thing to run your own life and determine your own destiny. To choose your profession, your friends, your territory, your partner, your pleasures. It is another thing entirely to feel the weight and possibility of divine destiny, to embrace God as source and director of your decisions, submitting your will to His.

 No wonder Abram fell on his face!

 What reservations do you think Abram felt?

 Do you work and pray diligently to discover God’s will for your life?

 

Tags: work, pray

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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