Jesus, Lord, we look to Thee

Jesus, Lord, we look to thee. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), volume I, in the section ‘Hymns for Believers’, entitled ‘For a Family’. It had six stanzas, originally beginning ‘Jesu, Lord…’ (amended here because the hymn is widely known as above). It was included in the 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists in the section ‘For the Society, Praying’. It has remained in Methodist use, with slight alterations, apart from an inexplicable omission from MHB. It was reinstated in HP, though without the final stanza 6, which speaks of the ‘family’ of those in heaven. The text in 1749 was entitled ‘For a Family’: Jesus, Lord, we look...