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Seven Last Words Daily Devotional -27

by David Joynt on March 15, 2021


JOHN 19:28 (continued) | 28 After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said, “I am thirsty.”

JOHN 4:13-14 | 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”

 Our Lord also identifies and connects with the helpless in this saying. He is the one who created the oceans and calmed the seas. He is the only source of the water of life, and He alone can make it a spring within our souls. Yet He is unable to move, unable to draw water, and supply His own immediate needs.

Many around us are fully or partially helpless. They can’t move or speak without assistance. They cannot care for themselves.

Pray for all those who know helplessness and for those who care for them.

Is there an area of your life where you feel helpless?

 

Tags: helplessness, water of life

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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