Father, thou dost not gladly grieve,
Or put thy prodigal to pain;
My needful chastning I receive,
A sinful, thoughtless child of man;
To think, afflicted, I begin,
Study the meaning of thy rod,
Review my life, renounce my sin,
And turn with all my heart to God.
Father, Thou dost not gladly grieve
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In the day of adversity consider.”—[Eccles.] vii. 14. 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 356.
Publishing: Public Domain