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November 26 Daily Devotional

A First Book of Daily Readings

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

Full security here

As we look into the unknown future we do not know what awaits us. Anything may happen. And if there is one thing we, and the whole world, crave for at this moment, it is security and safety. We have been let down so often; we have even let ourselves down. The thoughtful man asks, ‘Where can I repose my trust? On what can I bank with absolute sense of safety?’ And there is still only one answer. It is God. It is good for me to draw near with God; I have put my trust in this Lord God, this Jehovah, this covenant-keeping God.

The Psalms, of course, constantly emphasize this. You find it also in the Book of Proverbs. ‘The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe’ (Proverbs 18:10). A man is outside in the world and the enemy begins to attack him. He cannot deal with him; he does not know what to do; he is alarmed and terrified. Then he runs into the strong tower, the name of the Lord, this Lord Jehovah. The enemy cannot get in there. In the arms of God, these almighty arms, he is safe.... Because we are in Christ, we are in God. We are perfectly safe there. Let me quote one of the grandest things the Apostle Paul ever said: ‘I am persuaded (he is certain), that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord’ (Romans 8:38, 39). Safe in the arms of Jesus. If you are there, though hell be let loose it cannot touch you. Nothing can harm those who are in the safe keeping of their covenant-keeping God.

Faith on Trial, p. 123

 

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