Jesus his times and moments knows,
When least he seems our prayers to hear,
The mercy which to none he owes
His gracious will doth oft defer;
That following on with patient haste
We all may to his wisdom leave,
And heal’d at first, or heal’d at last
The fulness of his life receive.
Jesus his times and moments knows
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘One of the rulers besought him greatly .... And Jesus went with him. And a certain woman which had an issue of blood twelve years came.’—[Mark 5,] v. 23, 24, 25.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 56.
Publishing: Public Domain