What now is my object and aim?
What now is my hope and desire?
To follow the heavenly Lamb,
And after his image aspire:
My hope is all center’d in thee;
I trust to recover thy love,
On earth thy salvation to see,
And then to enjoy it above.
What now is my object and aim
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “And now, Lord, what is my hope?”—[Psalm] xxxix. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 293.
Publishing: Public Domain