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Christmas Playlist Devotional 27

by David Joynt on December 24, 2021


John 1:5 |5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

Christmas is hopeful. It shows us how much our great God desires to restore us and relate to us. His rightful home was the realm of light, the place of perfections, as befits the one through whom all things were made. By becoming flesh and dwelling amongst us he chose to be away from home that first Christmas. He entered the realm of darkness and death, of limitation and confusion and
injustice. Mary and Joseph left their home for His birth. He left his home for our rebirth. In relationship with him we become new people. We live in a new kind of Kingdom, in a new relationship with God and others. We trust that no darkness will every overcome the light and life God brings in Christ.

Are you hopeful?

What kind of darkness most worries you?

Pray today that God’s light will illume any darkness that lives in you in the coming year.

Tags: hopeful, god's light

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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