Daily Devotional

June 26

A First Book of Daily Readings

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

God's plan is sure

It is God Himself who gives us life, and the body in which we live it; and if He has done that we can draw this deduction, that His purpose with respect to us will be fulfilled. God never leaves unfinished any work He has begun.... And therefore we come back to this, that there is a plan for every life in the mind of God. We must never regard our lives in this world as acci­dental. No. "Are there not twelve hours in the day?" Christ said one day to His timorous and frightened disciples. And we need to say that to ourselves. We can be certain that God has a plan and a purpose for our lives, and it will be carried out.

So we must never be anxious about our life and about its sustenance and its support.
We must not be anxious if we find our­selves in a storm at sea, or in an airplane, and things seem to be going wrong, or if in a railway train we suddenly remember that there was an accident on that line the previous week. That sort of thing is abolished if we really get this right view about life itself and the body as gifts of God.

They are from Him and are given by Him. He does not just start a process like that and then allow it to continue anyhow, somehow. No; once He starts it He keeps it going. God who decreed all things at the beginning is carrying them out; and God's purpose for man­kind and God's purpose for the individual are certain and always sure.

Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, ii, pp. 115-16

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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.”