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I Am Because You Are October 13, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on October 13, 2025


JOHN 14:5 | 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

I love Philip’s honesty. He articulates, in his single question, the profound mystery of life beyond life, of earth and heaven. Every human being that faces the reality of his or her eventual demise, wonders whether that moment will be like a period at the end of their existence—a full stop on the sentences of their life, followed by a blank page. Or perhaps, like Philip, they have no clear picture, no definitive picture of life to come and our heavenly destination—they feel the end will be a question mark…? Philip needed to ruminate on Jesus’ description of the journey He was taking and its purpose (we will do that tomorrow).

 

What are your guiding images of the life to come?

 

 

Gracious God,

Faith holds on to Your promises and treasures the images we have of life with You. May my faith be strong and those images vivid.

Amen.

 

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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