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April 22 Daily Devotional

A First Book of Daily Readings

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

The God of little things as well as great

Is not this one of the most wonderful things in the whole of Scripture, that the God who is the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, the God who is forming His eternal kingdom and who will usher it in at the end, the God to whom the nations are but as "the small dust of the balance"—that such a God should be prepared to consider your little needs and mine even down to the minutest details in this matter of daily bread? But that is the teaching of our Lord everywhere.

He tells us that even a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without our Father and that we are of much greater value than many sparrows.... If only we could grasp this fact, that the almighty Lord of the universe is interested in every part and portion of us! ... The smallest and most trivial details in my little life are known to Him on His everlasting throne....

But that is the way of God, "the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy"; who nevertheless, as Isaiah tells us, dwells with him also "that is of a contrite and humble spirit." That is the whole miracle of redemption; that is the whole meaning of the incarnation which tells us that the Lord Jesus Christ takes hold of us here on earth and links us with the almighty God of glory. The kingdom of God and my daily bread!

It must be emphasized, of course, that all we pray for must be absolute necessities. We are not told to pray for luxuries or super-abundance, nor are we promised such things. But we are promised that we shall have enough.... The promises of God never fail. But they refer to necessities only, and our idea of necessity is not always God's. But we are told to pray for necessities.

Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, ii, pp. 70-1



“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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