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Real Devotional 35

by David Joynt on June 04, 2022

Real Devotional 35

JAMES 2:12-13| 12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

The great destroyer of human distinctions is human need. Why? Because our intrinsic equality as God’s children, as people, is hidden by all our differences of ability and status. It is our need for mercy and rescue that is completely shared and utterly independent of where we are in any hierarchies, whether social or economic. We are all guilty of violating God’s will and all in need of mercy. By showing others mercy we acknowledge our own need of it.

Can you stand without fear of the judgement?

Tags: judgment, fear

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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