![]() ![]() He says to all impatient souls: “My time is not yet full come, but your time is always ready.” He who kept Moses waiting forty years before He sent him to lead out captive Israel, who withdrew Saul of Tarsus three years into Arabia before he sent him as an apostle to the nations, and who left even His own Son thirty years in obscurity before His manifestation as Messiah-this God is in no hurry to put other servants at work. God kept out of the mission field, at this juncture, one so utterly unfit for His work that he had not even learned that primary lesson that he who would work with God must first wait on Him and wait for Him, and that all undue haste in such a matter is worse than waste. Thus a higher Hand had disposed while man proposed. Having drawn a small sum, he accordingly accepted this as a ‘sign,’ and at once applied to the Berlin Missionary Society, but was not accepted because his application was not accompanied with his father’s consent. He resorted to the lot, and not only so, but to the lot as cast in the lap of the lottery! In other words, he first drew a lot in private, and then bought a ticket in a royal lottery, expecting his steps to be guided in a matter so solemn as the choice of a field for the service of God, by the turn of the ‘wheel of fortune’! Should his ticket draw a prize he would go if not, stay at home. He felt unable, however, to dismiss the question, and was so impatient to settle it that he made the common blunder of attempting to come to a decision in a carnal way. ![]() ![]() Mature disciples at Halle advised George Müller for the time thus quietly to wait for divine guidance, and meanwhile to take no further steps toward the mission field. The workman of God needs to wait on Him to know the work he is to do and the sphere where he is to serve Him. ![]()
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