Another World
“The world to come” (Luke 18:30).
John Wesley, a classical scholar and gifted with a brilliant mind, gave himself fully to His God and consecrated all his powers to His service. Possessed of a scholar’s love for books, yet he spent most of his life in the saddle and in the active duties of a most strenuous life. With a passionate love for art, especially for music and architecture, he turned away from their charms to blow the gospel trumpet with all his might.
With a more than ordinary longing for the comforts of human love, he rose above disappointments which would have crushed most men. Forgetting his, “Inly-bleeding heart,” (his own expression), he gave himself unreservedly to the work of binding up the broken-hearted. Viewing the beautiful grounds of an English nobleman, he said, “I too, have a liking for these things, but there is another world.”
Yes, there is indeed another world, and the Lord said that those who live in view of it would “Receive an hundredfold now in this time…and in the world to come eternal life” (Mark 10:30).
