Full of earnest expectation,
Look we for our heavenly Lord,
Working out our own salvation,
Labouring for a full reward:
Happy, in the task assign’d us
If we still our lives employ,
Labouring on till Jesus find us,
We shall share our Master’s joy.
Full of earnest expectation
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.”—[Matt.] xxiv. 46. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 379.
Publishing: Public Domain