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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -28

by David Joynt on May 08, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -28

MATTHEW 6:9-10 | 9 Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

God wants us to get into heaven eventually, fully changed and fully restored, resembling the Lord we worship and obey. But He also wants heaven to get into us, right now. “Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” are periphrastic phrases—they express the same thing in different ways. The kingdom does come, in us and around us, when God’s sovereignty is acknowledged and His will followed. The kingdom exists in every life where Jesus rules and that rule is visible in real submission and obedience.

Now there are large kingdom moments in our lives—great decisions, dramatic battles with evil. But most of the time the kingdom comes in small acts of faithfulness. When we resist envy, avoid boastfulness, resentment, irritability, and arrogance, and we allow patience and kindness to overcome self interest, so that we rejoice in the right things—then we are living our Lord’s great prayer.

Pray the Lord’s Prayer in light of this week’s devotional meditations.

 

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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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