“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” Matthew 11:28-30 MSG
To say George Mueller had an amazing life is an understatement. But in many ways it was a life like everyone else in that it had it’s trials and troubles, crisis and sorrows. After all his mother died when he was 14. He was arrested at 16 for stealing and called himself a liar and a theif. But then he met Jesus and everything changed, well still not everything. He and his first wife Mary had 4 children, 2 stillborn, 1 died before his first birthday and his only daughter Lydia his only child who survived died at age 58. He also buried his father and step brother and then his second wife Susannah only 5 years after he buried Lydia. He met with other obstacles both professionally and personal.
But he could withstand whatever life dealt him because he lived the greater part of his life in an intimate relationship with God. He knew Him in the person of all his Descriptive names, He knew Him as Abba, He knew Him as friend, He knew Him as Almighty God. He walked with Him as Jesus and experienced the power of His resurrection through Holy Spirit. He was restored and renewed by the recuperative power of the Word that empowered and His whole being and enabled Him to achieve the impossible for the Lord.
All these things led him to implore both saved and unsaved with this plea to join him on the journey of this radical, joyful grace of faith
My dear Christian reader, will you not try this way? Will you not know for yourself . . . the preciousness and the happiness of this way of casting all your cares and burdens and necessities upon God? This way is as open to you as to me. . . . Every one is invited and commanded to trust in the Lord, to trust in Him with all his heart, and to cast his burden upon Him, and to call upon Him in the day of trouble. Will you not do this, my dear brethren in Christ? I long that you may do so. I desire that you may taste the sweetness of that state of heart, in which, while surrounded by difficulties and necessities, you can yet be at peace, because you know that the living God, your Father in heaven, cares for you.
Will you follow his lead and begin your own journey that will influence the world with an impact that will never be removed.
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