April
27, 2024 ~ Saturday, Week 4
~ John Wesley*
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 and better 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, were riding a circuit to reach rural areas. John's "method" effectively trained and used non-ordained itinerant preachers to develop small Christian discipleship groups offering religious instruction to effect social reforms, particularly in prison reform and the abolition of slavery. It became an evangelical movement known
as Methodism and strongly influenced the Holiness and Pentecostal movements. John, however, argued against Calvinism, especially pre-destination, and he and his brother Charles, from whom we have the gift of many hymns, remained thoroughly committed to
the Anglican Church and its sacramental theology. By the end of his life John was known as "the best loved man in England."
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