NO ONE BUT GOD

When one is dead in sin and strife
 No one but God can give him life.
Though spires ascend to lofty perch
 No one but God can build His church.

 When darkness thick beclouds our sight
No one but God can give us light.
When truth we seek on bended knee
No one but God can make us see.

 When sorely these poor souls are tried
No one but God can stem the tide.
When trouble rises like a wave
No one but God has pow'r to save.

When sinking down in heavy mire
 No one but God can raise us higher.
From life's demands and daily stress
No one but God can give us rest.

Though we may toil our seed to sow
No one but God can make them grow.
When everything is done and said
No one but God can give us bread.

 When to death's chilly stream we come
No one but God can take us home.
And when we reach that bliss ere long
No one but God will be our song.

 
Poem written by Elder Ralph Harris - May 1978