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I Am Because You Are October 17, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on October 17, 2025


JOHN 14:6b | 6b Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.

God is the source of all life, and apart from His sustaining power, nothing would exist. God wills the existence of all human beings, none of whom can sustain their mortal selves without His aid.

 

But in Jesus God shows us immortal divine life that cannot be destroyed by death or diminished by disease or violence. It is another order of life, beyond bios. It is life in relationship to our   Creator, infused with His knowledge, goodness, and glory. No one knows this life except the Son, and those to whom He reveals and imparts it. It cannot be discovered, or intuited, or tested apart from Him. Yet if we pay attention, the desire for this life is there in our longings to know and to love without limits.

 

Do you long for a deeper life?

 

 

Gracious God,

Fill us with Your knowledge, goodness, and glory. Fill us with a desire for Zoe, Your divine life.

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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