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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -33

by David Joynt on May 13, 2021


1 Corinthians 13:7 | 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.

Are you a cosmic optimist? Christian hope is not a vague sense things will get better. It is a fundamental trust in the promises and power of a loving God. Hope is fed too by the capacity to see God at work all around us, in people and projects. Such hope infuses the New Testament. Romans 8 is significant in this regard. It is realistic about brokenness: “all creation groans!” But it is certain that God’s love will triumph over everything that diminishes life.

Work your way through Romans 8 (read verses 28—end), noting the notes of realism and the notes of hope.

What are you hopeful for?

 

Tags: hopeful, romans 8

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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