Religion

Numbers 9:23: They kept the charge of the Lord

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)

Religion

Lord, I Thy charge obey
Who bidd'st my soul be still,
Whose cloud doth on my body stay.
And stops my acting zeal:
But while withheld I am
From labouring in Thy cause,
Thou bidd'st me suffer for Thy name.
And glory in Thy cross.

Whate'er my God ordain.
Contented and resign'd,
I wait, I watch, in ease, in pain,
The tokens of Thy mind;
To labour on for Thee,
If Thou appoint, I come;
Or let the cloud remain on me,
And sink me to the tomb.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Numbers 9:23: They kept the charge of the Lord.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2579/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Numbers 9:23: They kept the charge of the Lord.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/2579/.

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