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Best Marriage Ever Devotional 18

by David Joynt on August 24, 2022


GENESIS 15:2-3 | 2 But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.”

In a marriage, we are challenged to embrace the changes of our spiritual adventure together. As we go through life’s seasons we are asked to trust that God will use our lives for good, even when we are letting go of the safe and familiar and encountering the unknown. Abraham and Sarah embraced this task initially but struggled with it over time. They agreed to leave their home but became anxious when their dream and God’s plan seemed slow in the fulfillment.

They had left friends and the security of a successful life in place they know and loved. They faced the physical and psychological adjustments that come with age and the senior season. Gradually, their sense of holy adventure ebbed away.

What has impacted your life as a holy adventure?

Tags: holy, adventure

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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