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Dwell in the House of the Lord Volume 2, Day 53

by David Joynt on July 29, 2020

Dwell in the House of the Lord Volume 2, Day 53

Psalm 23:6b | 6b and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.

 JOHN 14:1-3 | 1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.

This verse looks forward to a dwelling with God beyond our current experiences of temples and sanctuaries. It anticipates an intimacy greater than we know now with God’s spirit. Jesus makes this explicit and personal, promising a custom place for us, which He will prepare, in His Father’s house. This promise makes all our earthly dwellings temporary and transient. It is hard to imagine a home without maintenance, let alone one that shines with divine glory, full of the faithful made ne

How do you picture the House of the Lord in this third sense?

 

Tags: eternity, place

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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