The Lord Was an Early Riser (2) - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.
Mark 1:35

The Lord Was an Early Riser (2)
I am in no doubt that I am on the right line here, and I urge this great fact, this blessed, encouraging, peace-giving fact, upon my readers: Your needs are never ahead of the Lord; they may have surprised you, but they have not taken Him by surprise.

I preach in this meditation an all-sufficient Christ—ever ready, ever able, ever willing; who rose up a great while before the day of your troubles awoke.

And I further urge each reader to read what I write for himself, and without reference to another, to read as though this paper were a particular and private message addressed to himself alone; and to say, "This burden that has grown so heavy and presses upon me so sorely was all known to the Lord before I felt it at all, and He rose up before it, if not to remove it, to carry me through it. I will go to Him about it, and lay it all from my side at His feet, for both I and my burden have been and are the objects of His particular interest and thought."

It is a marvelous thing to draw near to Him with a sense of this in the soul; to know that before I awoke in the morning He had risen up and was thinking of me, and was waiting and prepared to hear and answer my waking cry. It fills the soul with awe and with gratitude: with awe because of what He is; with gratitude because He is all that He is for me. Is this a selfish view of things? It is only as we view things in this way that we shall be delivered from self and selfishness, for it is help from the Lord that delivers—the grace that is in Him who stoops from the height of His glory to the depth of our need.

J. T. Mawson