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November 4 Daily Devotional

A First Book of Daily Readings

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

In His will is our peace

Beloved Christian, whatever it is that is tending to get you down, tending to make you a victim of this anxiety, this morbid care, harassing and spoiling your Christian life and witness, whatever it is, let it be known unto God ... and if you do so it is absolutely guaranteed that the peace of God ... shall guard, keep, garrison your heart and mind.... Like the Psalmist you will lay yourself down and you will sleep, you will know this perfect peace. Do you know this, have you got this peace? Is this another bit of theory or does it actually happen? I assert that nearly two thousand years of Christian history ... proclaim that this is a fact. Read the stories of the saints and the martyrs and the Confessors.... John George Carpenter, until a few years ago the General of the Salvation Army, tells how he and his wife had to part with their daughter, a lovely girl, of whom they were so fond and proud and who had dedicated her young life to foreign mission work in the East. Suddenly she was taken ill with typhoid fever. Of course, they began to pray, but John Carpenter and Mrs Carpenter somehow felt, although they could not explain it, that they could not pray for that child’s recovery. They went on praying but their prayer was— ‘Thou canst heal her if Thou wilt’—they could not positively ask God to heal her.... They went on like that for six weeks and then this beautiful girl died. The very morning she died John Carpenter said to Mrs Carpenter, ‘You know, I am aware of a strange and curious calm within’, and she replied and said, ‘I feel exactly the same’. And she said to him, ‘This must be the peace of God’. And it was the peace of God.... There they were, they had made their request known in the right way, and ... this amazing calm and peace had come to them.... ‘it must be the peace of God’. It was. Thank God for it.

Spiritual Depression, pp. 271–2

 

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