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VPC 2.0 Devotional Day-13

by David Joynt on October 16, 2020


GENESIS 17:7 | 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

Notice this challenging and profound idea. Abraham made a covenant with God, not only for himself, but for all future generations. At points in our lives we feel the limits of our mortality. We recognize we are dust, and life is brief, and few are remembered once their few years end. We wonder about the significance of our lives.

But God wants us to take immense responsibility for the future, to believe that when we trust him we can have a vast impact far beyond our lifetimes. Abraham is willing to make a covenant with God that will change the lives of all his descendants.

Do you wonder or worry about the ultimate significance of your life?

Do you believe God can make your life impactful?

 

Tags: future, challenging, impactful

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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