THE WESLEYS'

      You would agree with that John Wesley is well known as an evangelist who claimed the world as his parish,  and who rose at four each morning in for his devotional time, but his home was in shambles. Four years after his marriage he wrote to his brother Charles and said "love is rot"
He was a remarkable man and God used him mightily,  yet his marriage was a miserable failure.


     The wesleys'marital journey was a thorny course. A marriage largely nominal and often almost irrelevant ; separation frequent, but never final until 1776; they separated for the last time. " the water is split", John wrote "and it cannot be gathered up again " Two years later than wrote to her. It was bitter.  " If you were to live a thousand years, you could not undo the mischief you have done".
     
    John Wesley not withstanding viewed those stormy years of marriage with the ideas that if Mrs Wesley had been a better wife he might have been unfaithful to the great work to which God has called him.  John Wesley was married to his work and he felt it would have been a gracious sin to be unfaithful to that divine marriage., but sometimes a servant of God fails to distinguish between loving God and loving God's work.

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