I knelt to pray but not for long, I had too much to do. I had to hurry and get to work for bills would soon be due.
So I knelt and said a hurried prayer, and jumped up off my knees. My Christian duty was now done my soul could rest at ease.
All day long I had no time to spread a word of cheer. No time to speak of Christ to friends, they’d laugh at me I’d fear.
No time, no time too much to do, that was my constant cry; no time to give to souls in need but at last the time, the time to die.
I went before the Lord. I came, I stood with downcast eyes. For in his hands God held a book; it was The Book of Life.
God looked into his book and said “Your name I cannot find. I once was going to write it down... but never found the time.”
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