The Testimony of the Great 20th Century Pastor Martin-Lloyd Jones

One of the things that is interesting about Lloyd-Jones’s testimony is that he was a royal physician when he became a Christian; he worked for Lord Horder, the physician to the royal family. If he had stayed in that prominent role, he likely would have taken Lord Horder’s position, which means he would have been in the House of Lords.

Here is a young, brilliant Welshman who went to medical school, became a doctor, and was on his way to the top. As a non-aristocrat, you could not have had a better career path than Lloyd-Jones did in the mid-1920s.

However, when Lloyd-Jones became a Christian, he decided he was called to the ministry. He left his incredibly promising medical career and took a little church in a poor fishing village in Wales. He was still a fairly young Christian, and he wrestled with doubts about his faith, saying that Satan would accuse him: “Very often Satan would come and suggest, ‘How do you know you’re a Christian?’” He didn’t know what to say.

But one day, after he had spent some time in Wales as a pastor in his little village, he turned around and said: “I want to know, Satan, why would I rather talk about Jesus with the humblest fisher woman in Wales?

Why would I love doing that more than I love talking about medicine with my peers and other men who have gone to the same schools as me and are of the same social class?” Once he began saying that to Satan, the Devil didn’t know what to reply and left him alone.