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A New Heart for the Valley Week 4, Day 6

by David Joynt on March 16, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 4, Day 6

 

COLOSSIANS 1:15-19

 

Seeing God in the future, face to face, will be the transformative moment! But there is another way to see God—by looking at Jesus as we have him in scripture. The biblical picture of God becomes animated, personal, and particular in Jesus. He is the eikon, or image of the invisible God, and in him dwells the fullness of God. Every encounter someone had with Jesus, recorded in the gospels, is a window into God’s nature and character. Every story he told adds depth and texture to the divine personality. On the cross, which Luther described as a moment when God was hidden in his revelation, God’s glory was made known under the guise of suffering and death. Even then, we have a look at God’s heart, full of supreme love and faithfulness. Scripture, because of Jesus, allows us to see God in new and deeper ways.

 

 

How has your vision of God deepened because of Jesus?

 

 

FAMILY TIME

Name one thing you see about God as you look at Jesus.

 

Tags: glory, god's, divine personality

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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