In this barren wilderness

In this barren wilderness
By the good Shepherd led,
Having Christ we all possess,
And nothing more can need:
Thou art all good things in one,
And dost for every soul suffice;
Find we in thy love alone
The life of paradise.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?’—[Mark 8,] v. 4.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 11.
Publishing: Public Domain