We shall stand before His face

We shall stand before his face,
For all we now receive
(Every gift and every grace)
A strict account to give,
How we here our trust fulfil’d,
Our riches, time, and thoughts employ’d,
How we used the truth reveal’d,
And how the Christ of God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Give an account of thy stewardship.’—[Luke 16,] v. 2.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 240.
Publishing: Public Domain