God and God Alone

Today, I received a phone call from Jim Vess who is married to my neice Karen.  Jim and Karen are very involved in their church in the Dallas, TX, area and he was talking to me about a mission trip that they will be taking in about a month to Egypt.  Jim went there about a year ago with their daughter Amanda Wellman but  he had not planned to go again for several reasons ... mainly the cost: about $3,000.  Expensive as that is, he had promised Karen that he would not go again without her.  Now, its up to $6,000.  Still, Jim was challenged to go and he began to pray about it, "God, if you want us to go you will have to provide the funds."

A short time later, he was telling a co-worker about this and the guy asked, "How much will it cost?"  Of course Jim told him, but only for himself.  This man said that the $3,000 would be there the next day.  Wow!  Its great how God works ... half the cost without asking anyone but God.  Then, at church he was telling someone about what had happened and was asked "why are you still trying to raise the money?'  "Its for Karen to go also," he said.  "Then, quit trying, the other $3,000 will be in the bank for you tomorrow."

I'm not sure that I got it exactly right, but this I did get ... its all about God and God alone!

Jim and I continued to talk and our talk drifted to politics ... a very hot topic for the day.  My thoughts ran to God ... "please dear Lord, intervene in America."

It really doesn't make any difference which side of the aisle you happen to find yourself, whether liberal or conservative, left or right, or somewhere in between.  There really is no solution that can be found in any man or woman.  Barak Obama is running for president again and Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachman, etc. are opposing him.  The radio/tv pundits take sides and cry out "vote for 'so-in-so' in order to save our country."

I am so tired of this talk (and I get caught up in it too). But what we really need is a visit from God.  No man or woman will ever lead this country out of its depravity ... it must be God and God alone!  Men all want to impose their political philosophies on someone else ... to force change by edict and law.  Though I believe that the US Constitution is the greatest founding document ever created by man, it has been perverted by laws that aren't even read and by judicial rulings which are contrary to its intention. 

My prayer is that God would come down and shake our foundations, change our collective and individual hearts, and once again glorify Himself.  Therefore, it must be God, not man.  What we need is a man or woman in office who is so filled with the Spirit of the Living God and not consummed by political correctness that change begins to take place through that leader.  You see, this won't happen unless God is in it and in him or her, I don't care which.  All I want is God and God alone.  He truly is our only hope.

This concept is so beautifully stated in the following song written over 25 years ago.  May God once again split the heavens wide open and come down to shake our false foundations.

"God and God Alone"

      written in 1984 by Phil McHugh and recorded by Steve Green

God and God alone created all these things we call our own  From the mighty to  the small the Glory in them all is God's and God's alone
God and God alone reveals the truth of all we call unknown and the best and worst of man won't change the Master's plan it's God's and God's alone
God and God alone will be the joy of our eternal home He will be our one desire Our hearts will never tire of God's and God's alone.
Chorus:
God and God alone is fit to take the universe's throne
Let everything that lives reserve it's truest praise for God and God alone