An Audience with the King?

Reen discovered this story in a cherished vintage devotional book. I was intrigued. When last did YOU have an audience with the King?

The writer explains that he was going to America with a steamship captain who was a very devoted Christian. The Captain told this story as they sailed off the coast of Newfoundland. “The last time I sailed here, which was five weeks ago, something happened that revolutionized my entire Christian life. I had been on the bridge for twenty-four straight hours when a passenger on board, George Mueller of Bristol, England, came to me. He said, ‘Captain, I need to tell you that I must be in Quebec on Saturday afternoon.’

“That is impossible,” I replied.

“‘Very well,’ Mueller responded, ‘if your ship cannot take me, God will find some other way, for I have never missed an engagement in fifty-seven years. Let’s go down to the chartroom and pray.’

“I looked at this man of God and thought to myself, What lunatic asylum did he escape from? I had never encountered someone like this.

“Mr. Mueller,” I said, “do you realize how dense the fog is?”

“’No,’ he replied. ‘My eye is not on the dense fog but on the living God, who controls every circumstance of my life.’

‘He then knelt down and prayed one of the most simple prayers I’ve ever heard. When he finished, I started to pray, but he put his hand on my shoulder and told me NOT to pray. He said, ‘First, you do not believe God will answer, and second, I believe He has. Consequently, there is no need whatsoever for you to pray about it.’

“As I looked at him, he said, ‘Captain, I have known my Lord for fifty-seven years, and there has never been even a single day that I have failed to get an audience with the King. Get up, Captain, and open the door, and you will see that the fog is gone.’

“I got up, and indeed the fog was gone. And on Saturday afternoon George Mueller was in Quebec for his meeting.” (excerpt from “Streams in the Desert.” Order at www.yourrefreshedlife.com)