My first official Blog! Wesley's Sermon!

   “Now let each of us lay his hand upon his heart and say, "`Lord, is it I?' Have I added to this flood of unrighteousness and ungodliness, and thereby to the misery of my countrymen? Am not I guilty in any of the preceding respects? And do not they suffer because I have sinned?" If we have any tenderness of heart, any bowels of mercies, any sympathy with the afflicted, let us pursue this thought till we are deeply sensible of our sins, as one great cause of their sufferings.” 

     This is the passage from Wesley’s sermon that spoke the loudest to me.  His sermon even though it was written hundreds of years ago, still seemed alive and applicable to me.  Why does the world suffer?  Is it because of everyone else’s sin?  Or is some of the misery in the world my fault?  Is it partly my failure in being a Christian? Maybe, just maybe, I’m responsible for my own sin(can you sense the sarcasm?).

    Wesley’s sermon encouraged me to stop doing ‘good’ things, or things that seemed ‘sensible’ and instead do the right things.  Things like, “Show mercy more especially to the poor widows, to the helpless orphans, of your countrymen who are now numbered among the dead, who fell among the slain in a distant land.”(section 10, sentence 3).  I want to pursue love, unity and concord, in Jesus Christ. I’d really like to see how much the Christian world will change if every Christian took this seriously and pursued after Christ in such a manner.


P.S. I commented on Ben's blog