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April 10 Daily Devotional

A First Book of Daily Readings

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (selected by Frank Cumbers)

Waiting on Him

To the first question about the power of God, [Habakkuk] received a positive answer. But this problem of the holiness of God is more difficult. After stating his absolutes and bringing his problem into this context, there is still no clear answer. Now in experience it is often like that. You apply the same method which has worked so well in other cases, but there is no immediate answer. What does one do in such a case?

Certainly do not rush to conclusions and say, "Because I do not understand it, therefore, I wonder whether God is righteous after all." No! ... We make a mistake when we talk to ourselves, and then to other people, and ask, "Why this? Isn't it strange?" We must do what the prophet did: take the problem to God and leave it with Him.

A Christian may be kept in this position for a week, or months, or years. It has often so happened. But leave it with God! This ... was the attitude adopted by the Son of God Himself when He was in this world.... He knew that His Father could have delivered Him out of the hands, not only of the Jews but of the Romans also.... But if He was to be made sin, and sin was to be punished in His body, it meant that He must be separated from the Father; ... and the Son of God was faced with the greatest perplexity of His human life on earth; ... what did He do? Precisely what the prophet did; He prayed and said, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt" (Matthew 26:39).

"I do not understand it," He said in effect, "but if it is Thy way, very well; I am going on." He took the problem He did not understand to God and left it there, ... confident that God's will is always right and that a holy God will never command anything that is wrong.

From Fear to Faith, pp. 34-5



“Text reproduced from ‘A First Book of Daily Readings’ by Martyn Lloyd-Jones, published by Epworth Press 1970 & 1977 © Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes. Used with permission.”

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