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Lead Like Moses Devotional 51

by David Joynt on August 01, 2022


DEUTERONOMY 6:3 | 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently, so that it may go well with you and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.

Law can be rooted in love. This can be one of the hardest things for children to understand about family rules. Law is rooted in love when it restricts freedom in the name of protecting life. God’s laws are a kind of trellis, giving us support and direction, so the vine of our lives develops into a shape that has many virtues.

By preventing misuse of our freedoms that diminishes them, our laws can be freedom enhancers. In this case, law is based in love.

Can you point to a law that restricts freedom in the name of both love and freedom?

Tags: love, freedom

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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