Get Somebody Else

 The Lord had a job for me

But I had so much to do

I said "get somebody else,

Or wait 'til I get through"

I don't know how the Lord came, but,

No doubt he got along,

But I felt kind o' sneaking like

I know I'd done the Lord wrong

One day I needed the Lord

Needed him right away

But he never answered me at all

And I could hear him say in my accusing heart

"Child I've got too much to do

You get somebody else

Or wait 'til I get through

Now when the Lord had a job for me

I never try to shirk

I drop what I have in hand

And do the Lord's good work

And my affairs can run along

Or wait 'til I get through

Nobody can do the work that God has marked out for you

- Paul L Dunbar's poem "Too Busy"