When God declares me reconciled

Verse 1
When God declares me reconcil’d,
His pardon’d, dear, adopted child,
Allur’d into the wilderness
He lets the tempter prove my grace:
Satan impels me to despair,
Or doubt my heavenly Father’s care,
To question if I am his son,
And not to trust my God alone.

Verse 2
By hunger in this desert tried,
I will not in myself confide,
But trust my Father’s love to feed
My soul with immaterial bread:
When, as He will, the manna given,
The living Bread sent down from heaven
I shall with simple faith receive,
And by the Word and Spirit live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.’—Matt. 4, v. 3.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 18.
Publishing: Public Domain