Dear God,
It's seems too simple, John Wesley's Rule of Life. Just
do good, all the time, in all ways, in all places, to everyone for as long as
possible. But I realize that sometimes in the seemingly simple there is
deep complexity. I must look deeply within myself to be conscious and
intentional about my thoughts and actions to see where I am on track and where
I am not.
Oh Dear God! I'm off track more than I'm on and I am in such need
of Your help. I want to do the good You have
called me to do. Having Wesley's words as a kind of mantra will help to guide
me but at the end of every day, I need to return to You in my prayer. Please
breathe the good of Jesus into my soul as the fuel to fire my life in Christ.
Give me the courage and fortitude to spread the Good News through good thoughts actions
throughout all the days of my life, for as long as I ever can. amen.
John Wesley [1703-1791], born in Epworth, England, was an
Anglican cleric and with his brother Charles, also Anglican, and Charles
Whitefield, a Calvinist, riding a circuit to reach rural areas, starting an evangelical movement
known as Methodism and strongly influenced the Holiness and Pentecostal
movements. He argued against Calvinism, especially pre-destination, and
remained committed to the Anglican Church and its sacramental theology. His "method" effectively
trained and used non-ordained itinerant preachers to develop small Christian
discipleship groups with religious instruction to effect social reforms
particularly in prison reform and abolitionism. By the end of his life he was
known as "the best loved man in England."
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