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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -44

by David Joynt on May 24, 2021


ISAIAH 55:8-9 | 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

What clouds our vision? Many things shape our perceptions and judgements. We inherit mistaken perspectives from the past (the earth is flat). We unconsciously adapt the cultural prejudices of our day—the “divine right of kings” and the naturally stratified structure of society. We have limitations and leanings that are personal and sociological, connected to our background, gender, or social grouping. Or perhaps self-interest or emotional attachment or faulty reason comes into play and affects our understanding.    Sometimes we resist reality in the name of fantasy—preferring dreaming to seeing.

What tends to cloud your vision?

 

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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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