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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -47

by David Joynt on May 27, 2021


1 CORINTHIANS 13:12a | 12a For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face.

I am very grateful for technology. During the pandemic, Zoom meetings replaced in-person events. Without them, Session could not have functioned, education would have ceased, and fellowship would have been suspended.

But seeing face to face is different than meeting by Zoom. Even in-person gatherings with masks fall far short of actual face to face, personal encounters. Our faces convey enormous amounts of information and emotion when we are actually together. Paul envisions a face to face with Jesus and a new level of connection, conviction and clarity.

How easily do you hide your emotions?

How do you picture your future encounter with Jesus?

 

Tags: jesus, future, encounter

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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