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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -56

by David Joynt on June 05, 2021

All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -56

1 JOHN 4:18 | 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.

Love connects our experience of God and our future experience in heaven. But current experiences are imperfect and momentary, just as they are with others. Right now our capacity to love is impacted by misunderstanding and incomplete knowledge. It gets infected by jealously and diminished by doubt. Even love of family and friends is diluted by competition or lessened by conflict. Love on earth is a task and an achievement, not simply a gift we can exercise fearlessly and flawlessly.

But someday, it will be complete. Perfect love will cast out fear. Competition will become affirmation and solidarity. Doubts won’t plague and ignorance will give way to understanding.

Identify one of your fears.

Ask God’s perfect love to drive it away.

 

Tags: god's love, perfect, fears

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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