“Aug. 17, 1883…Think of this, dear reader! Day by day about 2,100 persons are to be provided for in the Orphan Institution…and £10 was all that was in hand to do this. You see we are just in the same position in which we were 46 years since as to funds. God is our banker. In Him we trust, and on Him we draw by faith…God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him. This, by His grace, we are enabled to do, and our hearts are kept at peace.”
George Müller (1805-1898) in Answers to Prayer ed. by E.C. Brooks.
I had the privilege of flying all the way around the world in only six days. No kidding. If I could have, I would have trailed a banner behind the plane that proclaimed these words (in the spirit of Müller): “Trust in God as your banker!”
Is that how you live and serve? Do you trust God for your daily provision? We find that sometimes He gives us work. Often it results in more than enough, so we are positioned to share. Other times it’s less than enough, so He provides through other channels.
Thankfully God varies His mode of dealing with us to keep us on our toes, or rather, on our knees. That’s the posture He taught us to take (cf. Matthew 6:9-13), and we have found as a family that there’s no other way to live!