I Want This Kind of Faith

I Want This Kind of Faith

"I have faith in God that IT WILL happen just as he told me." (Acts 27:25)

Yesterday's reading from Streams in the Desert touched my heart. This is the kind of faith I want in my life ...

A number of years ago I went to America with a steamship captain who was a very devoted Christian. When we were off the coast of Newfoundland, he said to me, "The last time I sailed here, which was five weeks ago, something happened that revolutionized my entire Christian life. I had been on the bridge for twenty-four straight hours when George Mueller of Bristol, England, who was a passenger on board, came to me and said, 'Captain, I need to tell you that I must be in Quebec on Saturday afternoon.' 'That is impossible,' I replied. 'Very well,' Mueller responded, 'if your ship cannot take me, God will find some other way, for I have never missed an engagement in fifty-seven years. Let's go do to the chartroom to pray.'

"I looked at this man of God and thought to myself, 'What lunatic asylum did he escape from?' I had never encountered someone like this. 'Mr. Mueller,' I said, 'do you realize how dense the fog is?' 'No,' he replied. 'MY EYE IS NOT ON THE DENSE FOG BUT ON THE LIVING GOD, WHO CONTROLS EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE IN MY LIFE.'

"He then knelt down and prayed one of the most simple prayers I've ever heard. When he had finished,m I started to pray, but he put his hand on my shoulder and told me NOT to pray. He said, 'FIRST, you do not believe God will answer, and SECOND, I BELIEVE HE HAS. Consequently, there is no need whatsoever for you to pray about it.'

"As I looked at him, he said, 'Captain, I have known my Lord for fifty-seven years, and there has never been even a single day that I have failed to get an audience with the King. Get up, Captain, and open the door, and you will see that the fog is gone.' I got up, and indeed the fog was gone! And on Saturday afternoon, George Mueller was in Quebec for his meeting.

Brothers, that is that kind of faith in God that I want. How about you? Will you join me in taking Him at His Word? -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK

God's WORD for YOU: Proverbs 18; Psalm 100-102; 1 Corinthians 1

Great Quote: The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself. Blaise Pascal