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World Changing Words Devotional-Day 48

by David Joynt on September 18, 2020


MICAH 6:3-4 | 3 “O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me! 4 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of slavery; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

 Micah has another covenant to appeal to. He evokes the covenant that arose after the deliverance from Egypt, made at Sinai. The mosaic covenant was a partnership, established by the gracious decision of Yahweh to choose and free the Israelite tribes. But it was a covenant with both blessings and curses, an exclusive relationship which focused on obedience and loyalty.

 Faithlessness and perfidy put the covenant into question and led to punishment and disaster. No subsequent royal theology could save the nation from apostasy.

 Can you hear God’s agony in these verses?

 

Tags: loyalty, obedience

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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