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Best Marriage Ever Devotional 17

by David Joynt on August 23, 2022


GENESIS 12:4 | 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Abraham and Sarah were asked by God to see the changes and adjustments in their lives as part of their spiritual adventure. So are we!

It isn’t easy to do this, particularly when it comes to the challenge of relocation. There are some people who naturally move away from the familiar to the new. Some retirees even forsake a home and address for an RV and a perpetual journey! But most people are more in love with the settled and familiar.

When we move to a new community to retire, for work or for personal or financial reasons, we start over in many senses. We begin again finding friends, establishing patterns, connecting with a faith community. At the same time we let go of familiar relationships and routines. There is loss and disorientation. Abraham and Sarah packed the RV and embraced the adventure!

Are you more excited by the new or comforted by the familiar?

Tags: new, familiar

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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