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Christmas Playlist Devotional 7

by David Joynt on December 04, 2021


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.

It is worth spending another day on this marvelous verse. God gathers up all the spiritual blessings of heaven and bestows them on us in Christ. He also gathers up all the key elements of the earthly story. These earthly practices and institutions find their true focus in Jesus as well. Earthly laws are gathered up as He embodies a life of true obedience and wraps God’s instruction in a package of grace. Earthly politics and social systems are gathered up in a new kind of rule, a servant kingship. Earthly righteousness is gathered up in its perpetual poverty and exchanged for divine goodness, freely given to us through faith. God gathers up the prophets’ dreams, the widows’ tears, the human quest for truth and shows us a new life without limits, a new reality complete and without error, and a new kingdom of peace and justice.

Memorize this verse and meditate on its meaning.

 

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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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