George Müller's Empty Table

George Müller sat at the head of a long breakfast table in his Bristol orphanage in 1842, three hundred hungry children waiting in silence. The cupboards held nothing. There was no money, no bread, no milk. His staff exchanged nervous glances. Müller bowed his head and prayed aloud — not anxiously, but with the quiet confidence of a man who had tested this promise ten thousand times before.…