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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -55

by David Joynt on June 04, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -55

PSALM 34:8 | 8 O taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are those who take refuge in him.

Agape love is the greatest characteristic because it is a foretaste of heaven. The psalmist exults in God’s presence and goodness in Psalm 34. He magnifies the Lord, exalting His name. He encourages everyone to “taste and see” the Lord’s goodness, employing the tangible analogy of food to describe the experience of God’s love.

I’ve watched a child fall and cry and then smile and beam once a parent picks them up and wraps them in an embrace. Comfort,    security, acceptance, approach, delight—these are visceral realities and only shadows of what is will be like to feel the greater love of our Lord.

How tangible is your experience of God’s love?

 

Tags: god's love, experience, tangible

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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