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World Changing Words Devotional-Day 39

by David Joynt on September 09, 2020


JOEL 2:28a | 28a Then afterward I will pour out my spirit on all flesh;

 The truly revolutionary character of the vision given to Joel is found in Chapter 2, verses 28-29. Chapter 3 pictures Judah restored, the nations judged. The prophet has an ethnocentric hope for national success at the expense of other societies. This hope is understandable, given Judah’s suffering at the hands of foreign powers, and her loss of independence.

 But verses 28-29 offer a wider image of the salvation God will bring about. Here we have a universal outpouring of God’s own spirit on “all flesh.” Yahweh’s concern and purposes go beyond “his people” to include all people.

 What place does love of country have in your life?

 How is it expressed?

 

Tags: salvation, yahweh

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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