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VPC 2.0 Daily Devotional-5

by David Joynt on October 08, 2020


GENESIS 9:14-15 | 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to
destroy all flesh.

 The rainbow is a reminder of the covenant God made with Noah. Interestingly, it is a reminder for God and for us! Now we know why we need a reminder. You and I are easily distracted. We are deeply emotional too and react to difficulty with anxiety and to suffering with sorrow. All too easily we can forget God is for us.

 When we examine the natural world from the perspective of God’s promises, then all the aspects of order, on the microscopic and
cosmic level, are physical signs that remind us of his faithfulness.

 How do you remind yourself of God’s faithfulness?

 Google the time for sunset today. Isn’t it amazing we know that time for every day because of the regularity of our world?

 

Tags: sorrow, anxiety

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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