All Our Knowledge Is But Foolish Poem by Gert Strydom

(After John of the Cross, after Roy Campbell)

where this God is loving,
is kind and graceful
and the more we get to know Him
the more we do realise that the knowledge,
the science and technology
that we do have is but nothing
against what does exist in and with God,

that the perfect science does bring us
to a straight and narrow path
that sets our characters,
that is walked in a relationship with Him
who is the saviour,
the sacrificing lamb that was slaughtered
for my and for everyone's sins
and do ultimately lead to heaven

but then as mortal humans
we cannot have all sense and knowing
which only comes from the Divine Presence,
even the geniuses among us are but foolish
do only have a part of a far greater puzzle
where daily He does bestow knowledge and grace to us
where we do actually with all our knowledge know nothing
compared to what is in the mind of our loving God

[Reference:"Stanzas concerning the Ecstasy experienced in high contemplation, "by John of the Cross, translated by K. Kavanaugh and O. Rodrigues."Verses written after an Ecstasy of High Exaltation" by Roy Campbell. ]