By secret influence from above

Verse 1
By secret influence from above,
Me Thou dost every moment prove
And labour to convert;
Ready to save I feel thee nigh,
And still I hear thy Spirit cry
My son, give me thy heart.

Verse 2
Why do I not the call obey,
Cast my besetting sin away
With every useless load?
Why cannot I this moment give
The heart Thou waitest to receive,
And love my loving God?

Verse 3
My loving God, the hindrance show,
Which nature dreads alas, to know,
And lingers to remove;
Stronger than sin, thy grace exert,
And seize, and change, and fill my heart
With all the powers of love.

Verse 4
Then shall I answer thy design,
No longer, Lord, my own, but thine;
Till all thy will be done,
Humbly I pass my trial here,
And ripe in holiness appear
With boldness at thy throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Thou triest man every moment.’—[Job] 7:17–18.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. 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 236.
Publishing: Public Domain