THE LORD'S JOB
 

The Lord one day had a job for me,
But I had so much to do;
So I said, Please Lord,get somebody else,
Or wait till I get through,

I don't know how the Lord came out,
But he seemed to get along;
But I felt a kind of sneaking like,
And knew I'd done him wrong.

One day I needed  the Lord myself,
Needed him right away;
But he never answered me at all-
But yet I could hear him say,

Away down in my accusing heart,
"I've got so much to do-
You get somebody else this time,
or wit till I get through."

Now, when the Lord has a job for me,
I never try to shirk;
I drop whatever I have on hand,
And do the the good Lord's work.

And my affairs can run along,
Or wait till I get through.
For nobody else can do the job
that the Lord marked out for you...

                  --Paul L. Dunbar--