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Set Apart Devotional June 19

by David Joynt on June 19, 2024


LEVITICUS 9:7b |  7b make atonement for yourself and for the people, and sacrifice the offering of the people and make atonement for them.

 

As servants of God we must build in humility practices, like confession and repentance, to keep attitudes and egos in check. We must also have a sense of just how awesome it is to stand between God and others.

 

A priest in ancient Israel was seen primarily as a mediator, one who stood between God and people. Having sacrificed for his own brokenness, Aaron “makes atonement” for the guilt and sin of his fellow Israelites. We also stand between God and others, others who are broken and separated from God, others who are struggling and following dead end paths. This is a great calling: to share God’s grace and truth and forgiveness with others.

 

Who are you a mediator for?

 

 

Gracious God,

Let me see today as a chance to share Your goodness and mediate Your grace to someone else.

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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