Nestor P Agtina
“George Müller is said to have read the Bible more than two hundred times, many of which on his knees.
Before his death, asked by a reporter what he would still like to do, he, on his knees, replied, “To read more of the Bible because I know too little about the excellence of Christ.”
This was an Evangelical Christian, director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England, where he cared for 10,024 orphans throughout his life based on God’s promise found in Psalm 68:5 “God is a Father to the orphans them”
Known as a figure wholly involved in the education of the children he cared for, he was even accused of providing an education beyond the usual norm for those times. He founded 117 schools that offered Christian education to 120,000 children, many of them without parents.
He said, “If I, a poor man, can build and administer an orphanage without asking anyone for money or assistance, only through prayer and faith, this, together with the blessing of the Lord, could encourage God’s children in faith, being, also a powerful testimony to the unbelievers about existence of God. ”
The famous writer Charles Dickens himself visited the parliaments of George Müller to see himself the treatment offered to children. Dickens was so impressed that he wrote articles for several newspapers, an advertisement money can’t buy.
Thus, even after the age of 70, Müller traveled intensely, reaching 42 countries, speaking even to White House authorities, sharing with others his rich experience with God.
On the day of Müller’s funeral, the Bristol factories shut down.
Thousands of people came to pay their last respects to the man who was transformed by God from a thief who betrayed his closest friends, to a man who put himself at God’s disposal and raised the equivalent of 180 million dollars would through prayer and faith in Jesus.
Müller wrote of his conversion: “When I surrendered myself totally to God, the love of money was gone, the love of a home was gone, the affection of wealth was gone, the Love of worldly things was gone. God has become my everything I found everything in Him, there is nothing else I wanted. And I stayed with Him, a happy man, a very happy man, seeking to only accomplish the things of God. ”
Many more lives have been transformed because of Müller’s faith and courage. Even if he is no longer among us, the work initiated by him still exists, and Müller’s message echoes today: “God is real, He is a God in whom you can trust!”
It is sufficient to trust in the living God, Müller said, and not worry about earthly things, for the beginning of worry is the end of faith; and the beginning of faith is the end of worry.”
「據說喬治‧穆勒（George Müller）讀過聖經超過兩百遍，其中許多次都是在跪著時讀的。
在他臨終前，有記者問他還想做什麼，他跪著回答說：『多讀一些聖經，因為我對基督的卓越認識得太少。』
他是一位福音派基督徒，英國布里斯托爾艾希禮唐（Ashley Down）孤兒院的院長，一生照顧了10,024名孤兒，完全是基於神在《詩篇》68:5 的應許：「神在他的聖所作孤兒的父。」
他全心投入在孤兒的教育上，甚至有人指控他所提供的教育水準超越了當時一般的標準。他共創辦了117所學校，為12萬名兒童提供基督徒教育，其中許多人是沒有父母的孤兒。
他說過：『如果我這個窮人，能夠在不向任何人求助或募款的情況下，單單憑著禱告和信心就建立並管理一所孤兒院，那麼這件事，連同主的賜福，就能鼓勵神的兒女在信心中堅固，也能向不信的人作有力的見證，證明神真實存在。』
著名作家狄更斯（Charles Dickens）親自造訪穆勒的孤兒院，查看孩子們所受到的照顧。他深受感動，於是為數家報紙撰文，這是任何金錢都買不到的宣傳。
因此，即使在70歲以後，穆勒仍四處奔走，走遍42個國家，甚至向白宮的官員演講，與人分享他與神豐富的經歷。
在穆勒的喪禮那天，布里斯托爾的工廠全數停工。成千上萬的人前來悼念這位被神改變的人——從一個出賣朋友的小偷，成為一個完全將自己交給神的人，他藉著禱告和對耶穌的信心，籌得相當於今日1.8億美元的資源。
穆勒在描述自己的歸主經歷時寫道：『當我完全將自己交給神時，我對金錢的愛沒了，對舒適家庭的愛沒了，對財富的眷戀沒了，對世俗事物的愛也沒了。神成為我的一切，我在祂裡面得著了一切，我再沒有別的所求。我就這樣與祂同行，成為一個快樂的人，非常快樂的人，只願專心成就神的事工。』
因著穆勒的信心與勇氣，更多人的生命被改變。即便他已不在世上，他所開創的事工仍繼續存在，而他的信息至今仍在迴響：『神是真實的！祂是那位你可以信靠的神！』
穆勒說，只要單單信靠永活的神，就不必為地上的事憂慮，因為憂慮的開始就是信心的結束；而信心的開始，就是憂慮的結束。」
Mueller and the Power of the Bended Knee
