Lord, I keep so busy servin' my Master
Keep so busy servin' my Master
Keep so busy servin' my Master
Ain't got time.
'Cause when I'm givin' my all, I'm serving my Master,
When I'm givin' my all, Lord I ain't got time to die.
I am supposed to be so busy fulfilling my purpose for God that I don't have time for carnal things. John understood perfectly. When his disciples seemed jealous of the success of Jesus' teaching, he told them, He must increase, but I must decrease (John 3:30).Not long afterward, Herod had him killed, but he had used his entire life fulfilling a purpose for God. Just because ours doesn't seem as important to us, and usually seems completely unknowable, doesn't mean we don't have one. The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble (Prov 16:4), reminds us that not only do we have a purpose to fulfill, but when we choose not to, God will use us somehow or other anyway.
And exactly what is that purpose? We may never know. My job is to do what God puts in front of me, knowing that he will never give me an opportunity I am unable to handle, and then let Him make the proper use of it. But that means I am "so busy working for my Master" that "I ain't got time to die." I am not serving myself, spending my last hours and dollars trying to give myself one more fling to make myself happy. Instead, I am spending my last hours working for the Lord until I can no longer do so.
David made a lot more mistakes than we seem to talk about. Not only did he fail with Bathsheba and Uriah, he failed when he numbered the people, he failed with Absalom, he failed with Amnon, he failed his daughter Tamar, and he failed with Adonijah. Sounds like a normal man, just like one of us, doesn't he? But he served God with all his might until he couldn't serve any more. For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption (Acts 13:36).
Contrast that with our culture's "Bucket List"—things you want to do before you "kick the bucket." Something about that has always bothered me a little. God made a beautiful world, probably close to 99% of which I will never see—even if I don't go blind. But what will it matter when we see the glories of Heaven? How in the world can anything be more glorious than God's dwelling place? When God decides He is finished with me, then I will be happy to go and see it. Meanwhile, "I ain't got time to die!"
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand (Prov 19:21).
Dene Ward