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2020 Vision, Week 1, Day 2

by David Joynt on January 06, 2020

2020 Vision, Week 1, Day 2

2 CORINTHIANS 4:14 | Because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence.

Toward the other end of this passage, we find another sentence of supreme confidence. Yesterday’s confidence was in truth,  confidence in the teaching and person of Christ, God’s unique emissary and only son. Today’s confidence is more personal. Paul trusts his life into God’s hand, believing that earthly endings give way to a new beginning through the power of the Resurrection. He has existential as well as intellectual confidence, trusting in Christ to bring life as well as understanding.

Which form of confidence is harder for you?

Which came first?

How are the two related?

Ask God to give you intellectual and existential confidence.

 

Tags: trust, confidence, knowledge

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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