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2020 Vision, week 6, Day 48

by David Joynt on February 21, 2020

2020 Vision, week 6, Day 48

REVELATION 22:2 | Through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

The fruitful tree of life will be in the middle of the city. Once more we are reminded of the beauty and brokenness of our current world. The creation groans, Paul says in Romans 8:20-23. Environmental degradation, species extinction, global warming, pollution on land and in the oceans—so many signs of a creation in need of renewal. The tree of life is a symbol of creation renewed. It is fruitful and has restorative powers, bringing healing to the nations.

Restored humanity is at one with renewed creation.

What part of creation do you long to see be made new?

Are you involved now with creation care in any way?

 

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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