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Dwell in the House of the Lord Volume 2, Day 47

by David Joynt on July 23, 2020

Dwell in the House of the Lord Volume 2, Day 47

PSALM 23:6a| 6a Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.

 Science is a wonderful enterprise. We know so much more about the world and ourselves every day. We can map and explore the   human genome. We can track diseases, target vaccines, explore the universe with probes and telescopes. But we do not know, barring terminal illness, the number of our days. We all have the same amount of seconds in our minutes, minutes in our hours, and hours in our days. Yet the end of our lives on earth is a mystery. There are limits to our knowledge, despite actuary tables and medical evaluations.

 Thank God for scientists and scientific discovery.

 Thank God that He is at the center of our life’s mystery and our days are in His hands.

Tags: science, mystery

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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