¹WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR SO LONG?
Brother Norman Gipson came into a noon-gathering of fellow teachers at the Sunset School of Preaching, looking tired and weary. His explanation related to a home Bible study the previous evening, resulting in a disturbed and long night of song writing. The song related to what had transpired that night. Carefully note the words of that song:
“I talked to a man about Jesus; He listened with wondrous surprise; Then I felt the start of pain in my heart; When he asked me with tears in his eyes:
(Chorus) Where have you been for so long? Why dind-n’t you come to my door? Just living in sin, so long I have been; Why did-n’t you tell me before?
(Verse2) I told him the Lord came from glory, To bring down salvation to men; He joyfully heard the woderful word, Then wept as he asked me again:
(Chorus)
(Veres 3) To all the whole world tell the tidings; That Christ is the Life, Truth, and Way; So when time is done and judgement has come; No one in that throng may need say:
(Chorus)
Brother-Sister is there a neighbor, friend, relative who may be ready to ask You, “Where Have You Been For So Long?” Is there someone wondering, “Why didn’t You come to my door?” Is someone you know ready to ask, “Why didn’t You tell me before?” On Judgement Day may no one need to say, “Where Have You Been For So Long?” “We must work the works of Him that sent Me, as long as it is day; night is coming, when no man can work” (John 9:4).
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¹Gene C. Finley, ed., Our Gardon of Song, Howard Publishing Company, West
Monroe, Lousisiana, 1980, p. 227.