Real Trust in God Needed

George Muller was the director of the Ashley Down Orphanage in Bristol, England who cared for 10,000 orphans in his lifetime.  His great faith in God enabled him to never make his needs known to others or make appeals to them for funds.  He also established 117 schools that offered Christian education to over 120,000 children, many of them orphans.

The following is from the Autobiography of George Muller:

"Some of my readers may be inclined to say, that there is no difficulty at all in carrying on this work, as there is so much coming in, from so many hundreds of persons in various parts of the kingdom and the world, who feel interested in it, that any one could do this. My reply is, yes, any one, whom God has called for such a work, and who really trusts in Him, will be supplied with means. But real trust in God is needed for it, else such a one would soon be overpowered by the difficulties.

"While I am writing this (end of May, 1858), week after week has passed away, for about ten weeks, when the income has been, generally, £100, £200, or £300 per week less than the expenses; and had not the Lord so richly supplied us previously, we should be very poor indeed, humanly speaking.

"What is to be done under such circumstances? To trust in what we have in hand, to depend upon the liberality of former donors, or to trust in the number of Reports which have been circulated? All these would be found broken reeds if leaned upon.

"We trust alone in the living God, and are assured, that either before that which we have in hand is gone, He will send help, or when it is gone; for Himself , as with an unseen hand, has led me on to the enlargement of the work, and causes it still further to be enlarged, week after week.  This trust in the living God, but this alone, keeps my heart in peace. Were I to look at things after the outward appearance,  there is no natural prospect of my being carried through the constantly recurring large demands before me.

". . . I cannot tell you how happy this service makes me. Instead of being the anxious, careworn man many persons think me to be, I have no anxieties and no cares at all. Faith in God leads me to roll all my burden upon Him; for hundreds are my necessities, besides those connected with money. In every way I find God to be my helper, even as I trust in Him, and pray to Him in childlike simplicity, about everything. Be encouraged, dear fellow-believer, to go this blessed way yourself, and you will see what peace and joy it affords."