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Celebrate! May 18, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on May 18, 2025

Celebrate! May 18, 2025 Devotional

PSALM 90:12 | 12 So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

 

The Romans built 53,000 miles of roads. They were the expert engineers of their era. How did they measure their distances? Every 1,000 paces, or 4,800 feet, they put up a stone marker. We call those markers, in English, “milestones.” A milestone helps us to see where we are by letting us know how far we’ve come and what remains of our journey.

 

Psalm 90 is a meditation on the brevity of life, and understanding this makes “time become precious in its passing.” We learn to mark our days, and hopefully to measure them through the moments of kindness and grace we experience, and the special turning points of progress, salvation, and blessing we experience with others.

 

Do you have milestones to mark your journey?

 

 

Gracious God,

Teach me to count my days and so, gain wisdom of the heart.

Amen.

 

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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