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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -4

by David Joynt on April 14, 2021


1 CORINTHIANS 13:1 | 1If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Gongs and cymbals are one note instruments, which repeat their sounds. How is unloving speech like these instruments? Unloving talk is unholy and disconnected from God. Since God is the source of truth, unloving speech drones on without connecting to reality. It becomes repetitive. Rather than relating to someone and then communicating with them for a worthy purpose, such speech just keeps banging away on self-interested themes. Gongs and cymbals attract attention without conveying much, musically speaking.

How loving and attentive are your conversations?

 

Tags: tongues, conversations, attentive

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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