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Christmas Playlist Devotional 5

by David Joynt on December 02, 2021


EPHESIANS 1:3-4 | 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.

EPHESIANS 1:10 | 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth

God gathers up all the spiritual gifts that can be bestowed on anyone, and through Christ, lavishes them on us. As we read verses three and four in Ephesians, note each blessing and look at your own sensibility. God wants us to feel blessed, to know we are the objects of God’s purpose and plan, the recipients of His goodness and glory.

He hopes that we’ll know we’ve been individually and permanently chosen by Him. He intends we experience a sense of holiness, as those who have become blameless because of His love and work in Christ.

Do you feel blessed? Chosen? Holy? Blameless?

What stands in the way of your experience of these incredible gifts?

Tags: gifts, holy, blameless

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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