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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -31

by David Joynt on May 11, 2021


1 CORINTHIANS13:7 | 7 Love bears all things, believes all things.

Love believes all things. What does this mean? It does not mean loving followers of Jesus are gullible or credulous, accepting things without evidence. Nor does it mean we are feckless, intellectually careless about the ideas we accept. It does mean we cannot be relativists or out and out skeptics about the possibility of finding truth. Faith has a focus, an objective dimension, namely the historical person, Jesus of Nazareth. He is the way, the Truth, and the Life. He makes specific truth claims about Himself and about the good human life, and about the divine will.

Understanding truth is a task, and it can be difficult, requiring patience and perseverance, because you and I are creatures of limited vision, whose grasp of reality is partial and faulty. But this does not undermine confidence in the truth God has given us in Christ, much of which has a magnificent simplicity, proven across time and culture.

How do you connect love and belief?

How confident are you in essential Christian truth?

 

Tags: truth, love, christian, belief

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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