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Finale Revelation and Imagination Daily Devotional-12

by David Joynt on June 17, 2021


REVELATION 2:4 (continued)| 4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

Like a marriage or friendship, our relationship with Christ can become a matter of routine, threatened with boredom and weariness. Couples pour endless creative energy into dating, preparing special events, and making memorable moments. Once married, they often give up courting and allow lesser loves to dominate their schedules and energies.

They have stopped investing the best of what they are in their relationship. The spark is lost, the appreciation dims, the sense of adventure wanes, and unnecessarily! For reinvestment brings reward. Relationships can grow fresher and fresher. It is other interests and passions that often lessen or die out. Relationship with God and others is an unfolding mystery of love and redemption, full of surprises, growth, and possibility.

Does this verse apply to you?

When were you most passionate in your relationship with
Jesus?

 

Tags: jesus, relationship

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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