Back to Table of Contents  Chapter 1  From His Birth To His New
Birth  A HUMAN life, filled with the presence and power of God,
is one of God's choicest gifts to His church and to the world.
Things which are unseen and eternal seem, to the carnal man,
distant and indistinct, while what is seen and temporal is vivid
and real. Practically, any object in nature that can be seen or
felt is thus more real and actual to most men than the Living
God. Every man who walks with God, and finds Him a present Help
in every time of need; who puts His promises to the practical
proof and verifies them in actual experience; every believer who
with the key of faith unlocks God's mysteries, and with the key
of prayer unlocks God's treasuries, thus furnishes to the race a
demonstration and an illustration of the fact that "He is, and
is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."  George Müller
was such an argument and example incarnated in human flesh. Here
was a man of like passions as we are and tempted in all points
like