Sunday, January 7, 2024

...with a willing heart

During a Wesley Covenant Service the congregation is invited to pray:

"Lord, make me what you will.

I put myself fully into your hands:

put me to doing, put me to suffering,

let me be employed for you, or laid aside for you,

let be full, let me be empty, 

let me have all things, let me have nothing.

I freely and with a willing heart

give it all to your pleasure and disposal. " 

John Wesley June 28, 1703 - March 2, 1791

I wonder if this prayer was as somber and humbling to those in Wesley's lifetime as it is today when I read it. 

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