Too Busy To Serve!
Too
busy! Too busy! Too often we say;
I cannot leave my post to serve God today.
I just don't have time --- the lost to seek;
Later I'll serve: call me next week.
Business
is booming and wages are good;
I'd like to serve Jesus --- if I could.
Call back tomorrow when friends are not here;
I'll tell you what's better --- make that next year.
I've got
great plans for "church work" next year;
So call me again when January gets here.
"Oh, How I Love Jesus!" That's what its all about;
And I'm going to get busy when I'm "all straightened out!"
Well,
things are all settled --- He's "all straightened out!"
The preacher speaks kindly to those gathered about.
He's not too busy now to serve his God;
But it's a little too late as they cover him with sod!
And if
he could speak, I'm sure he would say:
"Get busy serving God --- don't even wait one day!"
Yes, these words would be spoken to ears that won't hear;
For already we're wasting another New Year.
But you
sit in silence and say with a sigh:
"Why doesn't he know I'm not going to die?
At least I'm not going to die for a good many years;
So please don't try to fill me with fears.
I don't
have my children reared, and I'm paying for a home;
So if you're talking to me --- then you are all wrong.
Why I'm not even fifty: I'm hardly half done living;
Wait until I retire, then much time I'll be giving."
Isn't it
strange that even as I wrote these words?
My wife called the office, and these words I heard:
"Do you remember the friend of your sister, Lou?
She just died in Nashville! And she was only forty-two!"
by: Earl Gieseke
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