I'm reading a biography of Martin Lloyd Jones at the moment. My book only covers the first forty years so I don't know what i do after that but I'm about half way through and MLJ has taken his first ministry job at Sandfields in Aberavon at 26. He left an incredibly promising medical career to deal with the real root of man's problems.
One of his seniors at the hospital wrote to him after they found out about his new role saying these words
'I admire very much a man who plans his own life and goes ahead with it regardless of the multitude who would like to arrange his life for him.'
I found this powerful and challenging. It would've not been a hard route for MLJ to stay in medicine justifying it by his training, skill and its charitable nature but he felt the call of God and went for it all guns blazing. How amazing would it be if we went for this, every day, just seeking God's voice and will - avidly pursuing it.
Always find it exciting reading biographies of the saints. Especially Welsh ones.
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