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World Changing Words Devotional-Day 28

by David Joynt on August 29, 2020


EZEKIEL 37:13-14 | 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. 14 I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act, says the Lord."

 Where the Spirit of God is, there is life. Ezekiel’s prophesy for Israel was expansive; a return to the land, a new intimacy with God through the Spirit, a new stage in their history after generations of exile. The “dry bones” image shifts and there is new life in the national story.

 But with the Advent of Jesus the metaphor of a Resurrected people becomes a reality. The Spirit is given as a renewing gift. Resurrection power is actually witnessed and released. Metaphors and images become part of history, fulfilled and surpassed. A new kind of life, indestructible and death-proof, spreads around the globe.

 How much has this week helped expand your holy imagination?

 

Tags: life, spirit

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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