That God Is The Only Thing That Does Remain Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Koos A. Kombuis)

That God is the only thing that does remain
for the problems, the questions and wounds
of this old cruel world
and that His love does over-bridge everything
does daily come to significance to me.

A person does not need a church
to experience His presence
as His Word does echo it out
and the works of His hands in nature
does bear a own witness

and the ominous things that do happen around me
does rather show that the power of darkness
is now casting everything into battle
and do inculcate its emissaries and people
as Lucifer does know that his time is running out
and I cannot lay the catastrophe of life,
of this old tattered world
at the feet of a God
who is the source of all words
and of all love.

I do know intrinsically that God
does have knowledge of everything,
even the things that I do ask
that does not come to answers,
even when the pain in life does knock me out
and does astound me,
I still am aware of Him
and even if I do not know the answers
to all questions and problems.

[Reference: "Gebed op stigtingsdag (manifes vir zen-calvinisme) " (Prayer on founding day (manifest for Zen-Calvinism)) by Koos A. Kombuis.]