Monday, November 30, 2009

What We Need


A selection from a letter by Martyn Lloyd-Jones to the Rev. Ron Clarke, minister of Buckingham Chapel, Clifton, England. Both men were in poor health. Lloyd-Jones was only a few months away from death but wrote in response to a letter received from Mr. Clarke. The letter reveals his contentment in the midst of sickness. It was written December 4, 1980.

We have both been passing through new experiences and I am sure that you feel as I do that finally nothing matters but the fact that we are in God’s hands. We and our works are nothing. It is His choosing us before the foundation of the world that matters and He will never leave us nor forsake us. More and more do I see that what we need is a simple child-like faith, just to believe His word and surrender ourselves to Him utterly.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Letters 1919-1981, Selected with Notes, by Ian H. Murray, Banner of Truth, 1994, p. 231.

6 comments:

William Wilson said...

I must say Deon a very good artcle on the good Dr loyed Jones and how we can learn from him and his preaching. So keep up the good work my faithful servant.

William Wilson said...

I must say Deon a very good artcle on the Good Dr Loyed jones. And very intersting to read it and we can learn from him and his preaching.So keep up the Lord's Good work my faithful servant.

William Wilson said...

I must say Deon a very good artcle on the Good Dr Loyed jones. And very intersting to read it and we can learn from him and his preaching.So keep up the Lord's Good work my faithful servant.

William Wilson said...

I must say Deon a very good artcle on the Good Dr Loyed jones. And very intersting to read it and we can learn from him and his preaching.So keep up the Lord's Good work my faithful servant.

William Wilson said...

I must say Deon a very good artcle on the Good Dr Loyed jones. And very intersting to read it and we can learn from him and his preaching.So keep up the Lord's Good work my faithful servant.

Dean Olive said...

William,

Thanks for your encouragement. We can learn a lot from the letters of men like Lloyd-Jones.