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I Am Because You Are October 24, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on October 24, 2025


JOHN 15:9, 11 | 9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.

11 I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

 

A second dimension of abiding is affective. Christian disciplines are a pathway to love and joy. To abide in Christ is to know and sense His affirmation and tenderness, His encouragement and blessing. It is not a grim embrace of duty, gritting the teeth and clenching the fists and soldiering forward. It is an intimate and warm endeavor, a willingness to be filled with His light and love. It is a letting go of fear and anxiety, of guilt and shame, of self-doubt and insecurity. It is listening to a voice that wills your good, sees your worth, protects your future, and intends to make you, finally, glorious, whole, and complete.

 

Do you enjoy abiding?

 

 

Gracious God,

Speak to me in tones of love and encouragement. Lift me up beyond all that is negative in my life and circumstances.

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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