The life of John Wesley is a great example of the Scriptural principle \u2018making the most of your time.\u2019<\/i> He averaged three sermons a day for fifty-four years, preaching a total of more than 44,000 times in his life. In doing this he travelled by horseback and carriage more than 320,000 km\u2014about 8,000 km a year. Even for a very productive man, that would seem to be a full-time effort. <\/p>\n
Still, Wesley found time to write and edit. His published works include a four-volume commentary on the entire Bible, a five-volume work on natural philosophy, a four-volume work on church history, and a dictionary of the English language. He also wrote histories of England and Rome; grammars on the Hebrew, Latin, Greek, French, and English languages; three works on medicine; six volumes of church music; and seven volumes of sermons; and he edited a library of fifty volumes known as the \u2018Christian Library\u2019. Each day he rose at 4 am and didn\u2019t go to bed until 10 pm, allowing only brief periods for meals. Yet he declared, \u2018I have more hours of private retirement than any man in England.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Our days are like identical suitcases\u2014all the same size. But some pack more into them than others. These are purpose-driven, goal-oriented people\u2014unlike the man whose gravestone read, \u2018When it came time to die, I discovered I had not lived.\u2019 <\/p>\n
So heed this Scripture: \u2018Be very careful, then, how you live\u2014not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity.\u2019<\/i> (Ephesians\u00a05:15\u201316\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The life of John Wesley is a great example of the Scriptural principle \u2018making the most of your time.\u2019 He averaged three sermons a day for fifty-four years, preaching a total of more than 44,000 times in his life. In doing this he travelled by horseback and carriage more than 320,000 km\u2014about 8,000 km a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}