Sent of God to do his will
Every gospel-minister
Should his Father’s work fulfil,
Serve the heirs of glory here,
All his business and delight
Souls to win thro’ Jesus’ love,
Till he joins the saints in light,
Banquets with his Lord above.
Sent of God to do his will
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.’—[John 4,] v. 34." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 230.
Publishing: Public Domain