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.”
「据说乔治‧穆勒（George Müller）读过圣经超过两百遍，其中许多次都是在跪着时读的。
在他临终前，有记者问他还想做什么，他跪着回答说：『多读一些圣经，因为我对基督的卓越认识得太少。』
他是一位福音派基督徒，英国布里斯托尔艾希礼唐（Ashley Down）孤儿院的院长，一生照顾了10,024名孤儿，完全是基于神在《诗篇》68:5 的应许：「神在他的圣所作孤儿的父。」
他全心投入在孤儿的教育上，甚至有人指控他所提供的教育水准超越了当时一般的标准。他共创办了117所学校，为12万名儿童提供基督徒教育，其中许多人是没有父母的孤儿。
他说过：『如果我这个穷人，能够在不向任何人求助或募款的情况下，单单凭著祷告和信心就建立并管理一所孤儿院，那么这件事，连同主的赐福，就能鼓励神的儿女在信心中坚固，也能向不信的人作有力的见证，证明神真实存在。』
著名作家狄更斯（Charles Dickens）亲自造访穆勒的孤儿院，查看孩子们所受到的照顾。他深受感动，于是为数家报纸撰文，这是任何金钱都买不到的宣传。
因此，即使在70岁以后，穆勒仍四处奔走，走遍42个国家，甚至向白宫的官员演讲，与人分享他与神丰富的经历。
在穆勒的丧礼那天，布里斯托尔的工厂全数停工。成千上万的人前来悼念这位被神改变的人——从一个出卖朋友的小偷，成为一个完全将自己交给神的人，他借着祷告和对耶稣的信心，筹得相当于今日1.8亿美元的资源。
穆勒在描述自己的归主经历时写道：『当我完全将自己交给神时，我对金钱的爱没了，对舒适家庭的爱没了，对财富的眷恋没了，对世俗事物的爱也没了。神成为我的一切，我在祂里面得着了一切，我再没有别的所求。我就这样与祂同行，成为一个快乐的人，非常快乐的人，只愿专心成就神的事工。』
因着穆勒的信心与勇气，更多人的生命被改变。即便他已不在世上，他所开创的事工仍继续存在，而他的信息至今仍在回响：『神是真实的！祂是那位你可以信靠的神！』
穆勒说，只要单单信靠永活的神，就不必为地上的事忧虑，因为忧虑的开始就是信心的结束；而信心的开始，就是忧虑的结束。」
Mueller and the Power of the Bended Knee
