Concerning the abundant life in Christ, a young John Wesley once wrote, “O Lord, let me not live to be useless.” God answered that humble prayer. Wesley traveled tens of thousands of miles on horseback to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to whoever would listen. He witnessed thousands of souls trust Christ for salvation. In the autumn years of his life Wesley wrote:
“Today I entered on my eighty-second year and found myself just as strong to labor and as fit for any exercise of body or mind as I was forty years ago. I do not impute this to second causes, but to the Sovereign Lord of all. It is He who bids the sun of life stand still, so long as it pleases Him. I am as strong at eighty-one as I was at twenty-one; but abundantly more healthy, being a stranger to the headache, toothache, and other bodily disorders that attended me in my youth. We can only say, “The Lord reigneth!”While we live, let us live to Him!”
