Wednesday with the Wesleys

Today is Aldersgate Day

Resourceful Holy Spirit of God,

We thank You for Your servants, John and Charles Wesley.

That You fueled their zeal

and tempered it with divine grace;

brought them through dark times,

enlightened and renewed.

That You warmed their needy hearts,

assured and shaped them by Your active holiness.

That through their willingness,

You worked out Your purposes of hope, mercy, and justice.

Somewhat daunted, we stand today in their deep footsteps.

In a world of new challenges and old needs in a time like no other.

But undaunted, we humbly ask You to do in us,

what You did in and through them.

May we know both Your infilling and outpouring,

that whatever our situation or condition,

we will serve and honour Christ,

and in these, our days, know and believe

that the best of all is, “God is with us.”

Amen.

(By the Rev. Dr. Martyn Atkins from the Methodist Church in Britain website)