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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -39

by David Joynt on May 19, 2021


1 CORINTHIANS 13:9| 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part.

How important modesty is! Science uses peer review and rigorous replication of data to assess discoveries, so scientists, unlike politicians, are usually careful to apportion their claims to the evidence. This is St. Paul’s practice also. This bold man, this public proclaimer of eternal truth, was aware of his own limitations. Despite his genius and the depth of his training he flatly states that what he knows and understands is far from perfect and complete. This is sobering but also encouraging. There is more to know, more to see, more to discover. God’s nature and nature’s wonder have depths to explore. This is exciting as well as salutary.

Has your knowledge, personal and faith-wise, deepened this year?

Does this verse humble you? Or excite you?

 

Tags: faith, knowledge

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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