Turned into Fools Instead

 
“Invincible Ignorance,”  [i] 
the Church’s phrase,
for God’s permitting
of Faith’s un-reason.
 
Man’s perversity,
the Spirit says,
is our insisting
out of season.
 
How, against God’s Light,
possible not to see?
– perhaps as easy as, when called,
to say, “Not me.”
 
Our fallen race wanders in ancient blindness,
our graced hearts chill, rejecting kindness.
Why “Ignorance” should be “Invincible” we do not know – 
each culture’s thousand reasons make it so.
 
Why man should be perverse we cannot say –  
each Will beyond the universe roams in its small way.
Each person’s path, when we would name,
in end result confuses us, though it may seem to blame.  
                                        
We can’t discern, for fellow creatures
why God has been abandoned –  
but Heaven finds our Saving features,
wheat mixed with tares, at random.  [ii]
 
In Incredible Innocence
“the just man lives by faith”
–  by All and Any faith.
 
In willful Non-Sense
perhaps men hover near to death
–  mortal death.
 
Forgive, forgive,
the way we live.     

(1990s)


[i]   Romans 1:21-22   –  English Standard Version Anglicised.  {https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201:20-22&version=ESVUK } (accessed December 1, 2021).   
“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.  Claiming to be wise, they became fools….”    

[ii]    Matthew 13:24–25,  Jesus speaking  – 
“He proposed another parable to them. ‘The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field.  While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.’  ”