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Seven Last Words Daily Devotional -23

by David Joynt on March 11, 2021


2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 | 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

 On the cross, Jesus shared many awful elements of suffering which belong to the human experience. Other aspects were unique to Him. Paul suggests that Jesus bore our sin, carrying it and knowing it, though He was innocent and blameless. Sin is always a burden, manifesting as energy sapping and soul searing guilt and shame. Each of us carries this until we know God’s forgiveness. Jesus felt all the shame, guilt, and pain of all the brokenness of human beings, from the beginning to the end of time. This was why He felt separated from His Father, disconnected briefly, from the source of goodness, truth, and love.

Are you burdened?

 

Tags: righteousness, burdened

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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