Just read this and thought it was pretty Lloyd-Jonesish...
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones tells of a farmer who reported happily to his wife that his best cow had given birth to twin calves, one red and one white. He said, “You know, I have been led of the Lord to dedicate one of the calves to him. We will raise them together. Then when the time comes to sell them, we will keep the money from the one calf and give the money from the other to the Lord.”
His wife asked which one he was going to dedicate to the Lord, but he answered that there was no need to decide that now since he was going to treat both of them alike. Several months later he came into the kitchen looking very sad. When his wife asked what was troubling him he answered, “I have bad news. The Lord’s calf is dead.”
“But you had not decided which was to be the Lord’s calf,” she objected.
“Oh, yes,” he said. “I had always determined that it was to be the white one, and it is the white one that has died.”2
Boice, J. M. (2001). The Gospel of Matthew (pp. 105–106). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
