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.