FOG? WHAT FOG?!
George Mueller was an amazing follower and lover of Jesus who built homes and cared for more than ten thousand orphans for decades, without ever asking for a single cent from anyone. His journals are filled with story after story of how God intervened and provided for this man that simply believed with all of his heart, that his God could do anything!
One of those stories was when he and his wife were crossing the Atlantic from Bristol England, to go to Quebec, where George was scheduled to speak.
The captain of the huge ship had been on the bridge for twenty-four hours due to intense, thick fog that had encased the vessel.
On a Wednesday afternoon, just off the coast of Newfoundland, he was startled by a man who walked on to the bridge and tapped him on the shoulder. The man was George - who the captain had never met.
"Captain, I've come to tell you that I need to be in Quebec by Saturday afternoon!"
The captain answered, "THAT IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE because of this fog", to which George confidently declared, "Well then, if your ship can't take me, then MY GOD will find another way to get me there!!! I have never broken one of His engagements in fifty-seven years!!"
The captain stammered, "I would help you if I could, but I am helpless!!!"
George looked him square in the eye and said, "Let's go to the chart room and pray!"
The captain looked right back at him and asked, "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS FOG?!? DO YOU REALIZE HOW DENSE IT IS??!?!!"
"No!!" George replied, "MY EYES ARE NOT ON THE DENSITY OF THE FOG!!!! MY EYES ARE ON THE LIVING GOD WHO CONTROLS EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE OF MY LIFE!!!!"
With that, George knelt down and prayed a simple prayer....
"FATHER, please remove this fog in five minutes. You know the engagement YOU made for me in Quebec on Saturday, and I believe you want me to keep it."
The captain feeling guilty, knelt down beside him and was about to try to pray, when George stopped him...
"Don't pray. First, you don't believe God will do it, and second, I believe God has already done it!! I have known my Lord and Savior for fifty-seven years and there has never been a single day that I have failed to gain audience with my KING!! Get up Captain and open the door, and YOU WILL SEE that the fog is gone!!!!"
Months later when the captain was relaying his encounter with George to another passenger, he ended the story with, "George Mueller was in Quebec by Saturday afternoon!!!"
This is what we know...
There is no one like OUR GOD!
Nothing is impossible for OUR GOD!
And OUR EYES ARE NOT ON THE DENSITY OF THE FOG!!!
OUR EYES ARE ON OUR LIVING GOD WHO CONTROLS EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE OF OUR LIVES!!!!!
YUP! Our eyes are FIXED on The One who knows the END from the beginning and who has made all the in between just as He knows it has to be, in order for HIS PURPOSE to be accomplished!!!!!!
YUP! Our eyes are FIXED on The One who with a breath, dissolves fog and makes dry paths through seas - who with a word, brings storms to a whisper, makes blind eyes see, deaf ears hear and raises the dead!!!!
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS FOG?!?
DO YOU REALIZE HOW DENSE IT IS??!?!!
HAVE YOU SEEN THAT GIANT?!?!?
DO YOU SEE HOW TALL HE IS?!?!?
HAVE YOU SEEN THAT SEA!?!?!?
DO YOU SEE HOW IMPASSIBLE IT IS?!?
Don't you understand that this task you've been asked to do is IMPOSSIBLE?!?!?!
Don't you understand that it just can't be done!?!?!?!
AH HOGWASH!!!!!
The next time the enemy of our souls comes at us with his relentless rhetoric and horrible lies - let's take a page from George Mueller's book - let's look him in the eyeball and set him straight...
NO!!!! OUR EYES ARE NOT ON THE DENSITY OF THE FOG!!!!
OUR EYES ARE NOT ON THE GIANT!!!
OUR EYES ARE NOT ON THE SEA THAT STANDS BETWEEN US AND ALL THAT HAS BEEN PROMISED!!!!
OUR EYES ARE ON THE LIVING GOD WHO IS IN CONTROL AND WHO WROTE THIS STORY AND WHO ASSIGNED US THIS TASK!!!!
OUR EYES ARE ON THE ONE WHO NEVER LIES, NEVER FAILS and WHO NEVER BREAKS A PROMISE!!!!
Friends - we are SO excited for what's ahead and can't wait to watch our GOD do all that He has DECLARED He is going to do in Haiti!!
Like our friend George, we have chosen to look past the obstacles, to the face of THE ONE who will for sure get us to where He wants us to be, to do what He has set us apart to do for HIS GLORY!!!
The Charitable status is in the hands of our LIVING GOD - if He wants us to have it - then nothing can stop it from being given to us!
What we know, is that OUR LIVING GOD is OUR SOURCE of ALL that we will EVER need to complete this mission He has entrusted us with!
What we know, is that GOD HIMSELF will be there to receive our container and get it through customs and on to the property that HE GAVE US to house HIS DREAM for this nation that HE SO LOVES!!!
YUP! OUR EYES ARE NOT ON THE DENSITY OF THE FOG - BUT ON THE LIVING GOD WHO CONTROLS EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE OF OUR LIVES - AND WHO HAS NEVER LET US DOWN!!!!!
Be encouraged today!!!
If you're looking at JESUS, there's no way you'll even notice the fog!!!!
He will get you to where He's scheduled you to be, at the exact time He wants you to be there!!!
YUP! This is what we know...
Maurice and Sue