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Top X June 13, 2025 Devotional

by David Joynt on June 13, 2025

Top X June 13, 2025 Devotional

JOHN 14:6 | 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

 

God’s jealousy for His children is rooted in a truth, a great reality. It also rests in His unique power. Would a human surgeon not take responsibility for saving the life of a family member, if best qualified to do so?

 

Now, God is the only one who can fully save, heal, and transform us. History is in His sovereign hands alone. He, and no other, can turn darkness to light. Jesus’ statement about being the only way to the Father doesn’t mean God is active only within Christianity. But it does insist that the God we know uniquely via Jesus is the sole source of life beyond life and of ultimate truth. Since God wants to ensure an eternal well-being, He must insist on an exclusive loyalty.

 

Is God’s “jealousy” making sense to you?

 

 

Gracious God,

Thank You for caring about my life now and for my life beyond this life. Only You can overcome the forces that destroy and diminish life.

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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