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World Changing Words Devotional-Day 19

by David Joynt on August 20, 2020


JEREMIAH 31:32 | 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.

 Jeremiah’s prayer and prediction of a new covenant was also a   longing for a renewed intimacy with God. The original covenant was broken and one-sided. God pledged fidelity to Israel but they followed other gods, set other priorities, and pursued their own ends. Like a straying spouse, they spoiled the trust and intimacy that can happen when promises are kept well and truly.

 

When we break covenant with God or others, this longing for a renewed intimacy should be the cry of our hearts.

 Have you ever renewed a broken relationship?

 What did this require?

 

Tags: hearts, covenant

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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