The Assurance of Our Salvation (Studies in John 17) by Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crossway

Oh we must never ‘quit the painful field’ or ‘flee in danger’s hour’. We must never change our position or go out of the situation simply because it is difficult. It is in the difficult situations that God manifests his power. Now it may be God’s will for you to change your position. That is all right as long as it is God’s will for you; but never take the decision yourself simply because things are difficult. Never hand in your resignation because things are going against you. Never come out of anything simply because it is problematical. Stay there until God moves you. He leaves his people in the world; he does not take them out of it.

And that leads me to my last point, which is that in the midst of all these situations and problems we must always look to him and to his power; we must always look to the ultimate that is destined. We know we are going on to glory – ‘We have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens’ (2 Cor 5:1). So, whatever may be happening here, keep your eye on that, hold on to it. You know that he has a purpose in leaving you where you are, but you know, too, that you are going on. Keep your eye on him and on that for which you are destined. And if you do that, you will be able to put into practice my last exhortation – let us therefore live every moment of our lives to the full. Never let us waste a second of God’s time in asking these foolish, unnecessary questions, in grumbling or in complaining. Having settled this great question in principle, once and for ever, let us never ask it again, but let us take every moment and live it to the maximum. Let us manifest the praises of Christ and of God every split second of our lives, redeeming the time, and clutching at the opportunities.

Look at it like this. Instead of saying, ‘Why does God leave me in this world? Why is he leaving me here for another five, ten, or twenty years?’ Rather say this: I have another five, ten, twenty years to manifest his praises, to tell his sinful world about him and I am going to take every opportunity I can to do that. Time is passing, it is short, there is so much to be done and so little time in which to do it. So I will live my life to the full and to the maximum, thanking him that he has counted me worthy to fulfil my station in life as his servant, thanking him that Christ has ever sent me, as God the Father sent him, to do these things in the world. I see myself, therefore, as an imitator of Christ, as a re-enactor of the life of Christ.

Yes, let me rise to the height to which the apostle Paul rose in Colossians 1.

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