“The Fool says … ‘There is no God’”*

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series]

“The fool says in his heart,
‘There is no God’”.*
He cannot know, but must
boldy discard
the thought of something greater
than what we see, all matter.
A God would intervene, he says,
at once to make things better.

So two things he neglects –
how life began,
and what a God would do
with sinful man:
If he make all work perfectly,
with no more germs or tragedy,
would we all live harmoniously
and kindly neighbours, brothers, be?

Or should he (as he says)
some trouble leave
awhile – his help and hope
we can receive –
while showing how we need to be
all changed so fundamentally,
forgiven, before he come and cleanse
all germs and sin out thorougly. 

*Psalm 14:1; 53:1

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