Who in Thy word confide

Verse 1
Who in thy word confide
From nature’s haste set free,
Our patient souls by faith abide,
And fix their eyes on thee:
Till thou would’st have us go,
We wait thy Spirit’s sign;
And cannot lose our time, we know,
By tarrying, Lord, for thine.

Verse 2
To work for God is good,
If God our work ordain;
But stay’d by the incumbent cloud,
We in our place remain:
To cease from work is best,
If after Jesu’s will;
For when at his command we rest,
We please our Saviour still.

Verse 3
Saviour, we wait the day,
The awful day unknown,
To quit our house, this tent of clay,
To lay our bodies down;
Expecting from above
The certain sign we stand,
As ready always to remove,
And die at thy command.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “As long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle, they rested in the tents.”—[Num.] ix. 18. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 66.
Publishing: Public Domain