Around the World in 88 Years -E Book - Arthur Burt

“I cannot understand how you live,” he puzzled. “Your rates areover a thousand pounds, you also have water, drainage, andtelephone, gas and electric bills, and coal bills. You say you haveno regular income except your pension, and then you say youtravel the world.”“Yes, I travel the world. I stopped counting the times I’d crossedthe Atlantic when it got to 200. Wherever it is that I travel, Godmeets me. Where the appointment is, the provision is. If Goddoesn’t meet me, I don’t go.”“Well,” he mumbled, “I don’t understand this.”“That makes two of us,” I remarked. “Neither do I. If you areleaving God out of the picture, I don’t have any answer.”I feel that living by faith includes rendering to Caesar what is duehim, and so I pay my income tax, believing God will supply allmy need — even my taxes. I don’t have to moan and complainabout it.One day, many years ago, God rebuked me for saying about anyparticular expense, “I cannot afford it.”“If it is My will,” He said, “you can afford it. If it’s not My will,you shouldn’t want to afford it.” I am grateful to the Lord becauseHe does meet me in grace and mercy.No newsletters, no appeals, and no chargePeople have passed through Bron Wendon, many hundreds…without charge. God has always provided abundantly… and withoutany appeals for finances.Well, when I was 16, I read the life of George Muller. And Mullerbelieved in a life of faith: not faith in the people of God, but faithin the God of the people. He never ever made an appeal formoney.And I read the story of this woman who’d got saved. She said toher husband, “Who is George Muller?” He said, “Well everybodyknows who George Muller is.” “Well,” she says, “I don’t.”He says, “What are you talking about?” She says, “Well God toldme, while you’d been out, He said, ‘Bake George Muller bread.’Why can’t he buy his own bread like anybody else?” she said.228