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World Changing Words Devotional-Day 16

by David Joynt on August 17, 2020


JEREMIAH 31:29-30 | 29 In those days they shall no longer say: "The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge." 30 But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.

The parents eat sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge. This folk aphorism has a deep truth. Normally what I eat does not effect the digestion of my children—unless I am a breast feeding mother. We eat and digest separately. But this popular saying is suggesting that the sins of parents will impact their kids. The generations share responsibility and a deep connection. Punishment in one generation, like the exile, which resulted from a history of rebellion, will linger and affect many born afterwards. This is a wise and telling truth. Psychology and sociology suggest the deep ways our personalities and possibilities are linked from parents to children. There is a momentum in corporate and individual history.

Have you benefited and been blessed by previous generations?

Have you been hurt?

 

 

Tags: impact, generations

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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