June 10 Daily Devotional

Men said that Christ and His saints slept
(The English Chronicle c. 1140 A.D.)

The Psalmist asks, 'Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious?" ... some of the greatest saints have sometimes been tempted to ask these questions when things have gone against them.... Does God care, and if He does care, why does He not stop these things? Is it that He cannot? And so doubts about the character of God lead to doubts about His power.

How often people have asked these questions! How often did people say in the last World War: Why does God permit a man like Hitler to live ? If He is God and is all-powerful why doesn't He strike him down? ...

Now this man had been assailed by just such questions, and here, now, he finds his answer. At once he is put right by remembering the greatness and the power of God:—'thou didst set them in slippery places' [Psalm 73:18]. There is nothing outside the control of God. ... It is, indeed, one of the great themes of the Bible He is eternal in all His powers and in all His attributes. "He spake, and it was done"....

"In the beginning God." That is a fundamental postulate; the Bible asserts it everywhere. Whatever the explanation may be of all that is happening in the world, it is not that God is not capable of stopping it. He is absolute; He is the everlasting, eternal God to whom everything on earth is but as nothing. He owns everything; He governs. He controls everything; all things are under His hands. "The Lord reigneth.'

Faith on Trial, pp. 56-7

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“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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