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Body Building Daily Devotional - 47

by David Joynt on October 28, 2021


JOHN 17:20-21 | 20 I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may
believe that you have sent me.

The unity described in these verses I call mystical. There are negative mysteries, which are simple areas of ignorance and unknowing. But there are also positive mysteries, where we know things which are beyond our reckoning. Jesus’ oneness with God was mystical or mysterious in a positive way. He spoke truth, which could only be divine in origin, because it was so revealing and deep and fruitful. He exercised holy powers of healing, in mortal situations without any reasonable hope of a cure. He responded to hate with love, and violence with forgiveness.

Jesus prays that we would also experience oneness with God, that we might dwell or live within God’s trinitarian presence, sensing His Spirit in one another.

Ask God for a deeper sense of oneness with Him and with
others.

 

Tags: god, him, oneness

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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