Daily Devotional

April 08

A First Book of Daily Readings

by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (selected by Frank Cumbers)
Sourced from the OPC website

We look to Christ—to Christ alone

God accepts this righteousness of Christ, this perfect righteousness face to face with the Law which He honoured in every respect. He has kept it and given obedience to it; He has borne its penalty. The Law is fully satisfied. God's way of salvation, says Paul, is that. He gives to us the righteousness of Christ.

If we have seen our need and go to God and confess it, God will give us His own Son's righteousness. He imputes Christ's righteousness to us who believe in Him, and regards us as righteous, and declares us and pronounces us to be righteous in Him. That is the way of salvation, the Christian way of salvation, the way of salvation through justification by faith. So that it comes to this. That I see and I believe and I look to nothing and to no one except to the Lord Jesus Christ.


I like Paul's way of putting it. He asks: "Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by the law of faith" [Romans 3:27]. You foolish Jews, says Paul; you are boasting about the fact that ... you have the oracles of God and that you are God's people. You must cease to do that.

You must not rest upon the fact that you have this tradition and that you are children of your forefathers. There is no boasting; you have to rest exclusively upon the Lord Jesus Christ and His perfect work. The Jew is not superior to the Gentile in this respect.... We look to Christ, and to Christ alone, and not to ourselves in any respect whatsoever.

Spiritual Depression, p. 33

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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.”