God Is Faithful

God is faithful, even when we are faithless. It is His nature, and He doesn’t change.  As His children, our lives are full of opportunities to showcase His faithfulness. And He longs to show the world who He is and how He is like, through us.

Most times we miss these opportunities. Because we don’t like to take risk, we do our best to stay in control or to get out of situations where we don’t have control. We don’t like to put ourselves in situations whereby we cannot do anything. We feel uncomfortable; it scares us. We want to do something, and to know that we can do something. This is the mark of living in the flesh – to meet our needs through self-effort, apart from God. 

But God longs to show Himself strong in our behalf (2 Chron 16:9), He desires that we rely on and expect His supernatural intervention. When God’s children forgo the privilege of living in His supernatural providence the world misses the chance to get a glimpse of God – His nature and His power.

George Mueller was not one of your normal Christian. He ran an orphanage in Bristol, England for more than half a century in the 1800s, without collecting a cent from the public. At one time (1874), he had two thousand one hundred to feed at the orphanage, one hundred and eighty nine missionaries to assist and one hundred schools to be supported entirely. He didn’t have a fund-raising committee and he didn’t ask any one for money.  He asked from one person and one only, the almighty God, in prayer. And God never failed him. 

A Pastor Charles Parsons interviewed Mueller towards the close of the latter’s life. In the course of their conversation Parsons asked Mueller if he had found the Lord to be always faithful, this is how Mueller answered: “Always. He has never failed me! For nearly seventy years every need in connection with His work has been supplied. The orphans, from the first until now, have numbered nine thousand five hundred; but they have never wanted a meal. Hundreds of times we have commenced the day without a penny; but our Heavenly Father has sent supplies the moment they were actually required. There never was a time when we had no wholesome meal. During all these years I have been enabled to trust in the living God alone. Seven million five hundred thousand dollars have been sent to me in answer to prayer. We have needed as much as two hundred thousand dollars in one year, and it has all come when needed. No man can ever say I asked him for a penny. We have no committees, no collectors, no voting, and no endowment. All has come in answer to believing prayer …”**

A. T. Pierson, who later wrote a biography for Mueller, once visited at the orphanage. One night when everybody had retired Mueller asked Pierson to pray together with him. Mueller revealed that there was absolutely nothing in the house for next morning’s breakfast, Pierson was shocked and remonstrated with Mueller that at such hour they could find no supply. Mueller knew about it. So they prayed. At least Mueller did and Pierson tried to. They went to bed and sleep, and breakfast for two thousand children was there in abundance at the usual breakfast hour! In answer to their prayer, the Lord called a man out of his bed to send breakfast to Mueller’s orphanage. Knowing nothing of the need, he sent supply good enough for a month!

How faithful is our God! But how many give Him a chance to demonstrate His faithfulness like George Mueller did?

You can.

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** Source: George Muller Man of Faith, published by The Navigators, Singapore, printed by permission of Zondervan Publishing House

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