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Top X June 11, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on June 11, 2025

Top X June 11, 2025 Devotional

DEUTERONOMY 5:9a | 9a You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God...

Yahweh’s “jealousy” for an exclusive relationship with Israel brooked no rivals because of His rights as Creator. Further, He was their Redeemer — He had demonstrated His love and commitment for them by liberating them from slavery and saving them from death. He had guided and helped them. The second foundation of their unique relationship with Him was historical. Not only did they owe their lives to Him as Creator, upon whom they depended for breath and bread, but He was also their champion, their rescuer, their defender.

 

Is God’s claim on your life visible in your personal story?

 

 

Gracious God,

You’ve made me and redeemed me. You’ve guided and saved me. Thank You for the gift of my life and Your decision to be with me and for me. 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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