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Broken and the Blessed Week 6, Day 7

by David Joynt on February 18, 2017


DAY 42

1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18

 

Some interpreters take the promise that the pure in heart “will see God” and emphasize the future tense. Those with spiritual clarity will see Jesus at His return, will see Him as Savior and Ruler at the Final Judgment, and will see Him when they are admitted into God’s presence.

 

It is a marvelous thought that when history concludes, we will see Jesus, Lord of justice and love, at the center of all things. This confusing play we live in, with its twists and turns and tragedies, will conclude with righteousness ruling and truth prevailing. What a sight that will be!

 

 

When you pray for God’s Kingdom to come “on earth as it is in heaven,” how do you picture it?

 

FAMILY TIME:

What wrongs do you most long for Jesus to put right?

 

 

Tags: blessed, pure in heart

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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