George Müller's Two Hundred Bibles

George Müller of Bristol, England, read the Bible cover to cover more than two hundred times in his ninety-three years. Each morning before dawn, the Prussian-born orphanage director would settle into his chair, open the Scriptures, and begin what he called "the nourishment of the inner man." This was no casual reading. Müller meditated on every verse, turning phrases over in his mind the way a jeweler examines a stone, searching for what God might be saying to him that day.…