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Day 47: Understanding

Read Colossians 1:15-20 and think about it in relation to our verses from John 16.

by David Joynt on May 26, 2016

Day 47: Understanding

JOHN 16:15
COLOSSIANS 1:15-20 


This past Sunday was Trinity Sunday. In this verse Jesus connects the Spirit and the Father with His own life and ministry. There is no second side to God’s character beyond what we see and hear from Jesus. There need be no addendum or postscript. Instead the Spirit will help us understand God’s truth as we find it in our Lord’s life and words. The persons of the Trinity act in concert. Our understanding as Christians, roots in a great narrative with three movements. Creation, redemption, and renewal frame the story of life and locate our lives within the work of God. Jesus is at the center of all God; doing as He makes, restores, and renews His creation and His creatures. This deeper understanding came to the disciples through the Spirit as they reflected on Jesus’ life and death and resurrection.

Read Colossians 1:15-20 and think about it in relation to our verses from John 16.

Tags: devotional, encountering, understanding

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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