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Lead Like Moses Devotional 50

by David Joynt on July 31, 2022

Lead Like Moses Devotional 50

DEUTERONOMY 6:5 | 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

A law that commands love?! How is that possible? Isn’t love a spontaneous emotion, a sudden warming of the heart, an immediate response rising up unbidden from the depths of our souls? How can love or happiness or satisfaction or compassion or any other emotion be commanded?

Biblical love has a measure of passion and emotion but a foundation in intention and decision. If love is never embodied in action it is a solo experience, but love is given by God to bind us to Him and one another, it is meant to be shared. We must decide to love and to do the things that grow our love for God. Study, prayer, service, worship, and obedience help us grow closer to God and then with intimacy comes passion and emotion.

How do you connect law and love?

Tags: love, law, connect

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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