Meet George Muller

If you are not familiar with George Muller, you should be!  Jim Elliff has written an introduction (available in full here) in the book A Million and a Half in Answer to Prayer by George Muller (Hardcover, 736 pages, Westminster Literature Resources).

As Jim writes,

Muller’s view of faith was simple, almost childlike. He believed that everything he did was to be guided by Scripture. He was no mystic, refusing to be lead by impressions or even to take Scripture out of context. He believed that living by impressions would lead Christians into much error. Rather, as a man of confidence in the Bible, he found out what God had promised and rested on it. Faith, to Muller, was finding out what God said or what he permitted, and doggedly hanging on to the promises even when circumstances were screaming otherwise.

George Muller’s life was incredible.  However, the incredible results stemmed from the simplest, child-like faith in the power of the Scriptures.  This sort of faith must be recovered where it is missing and fostered where it is found.  Muller cared for over 10,000 orphans, but this sort of faith does not only bring food for children.  It will bring food for our souls, and power for the expansion of the Kingdom of God.

May we earnestly seek in prayer such promises from God’s Word, knowing that He is faithful to grant the desires of our hearts.  May we preach the Word of God in the same manner Muller was guided by it: refusing to be led by impressions or taking Scripture out of context.  Let us trust that the Word is purposeful and divinely designed!