While The Summer Sun Burns Fiercely Over Us (In Answer To Koos A. Kombuis) Poem by Gert Strydom

While The Summer Sun Burns Fiercely Over Us (In Answer To Koos A. Kombuis)



While the summer sun burns fiercely over us,
we are already living in the Promised Land,
we are on no meandering road
that runs into the desert
as long as our eyes are focused
on the Lord
and we constantly trust Him.

We are in no desert
although foreigners crowd at our gates
and by criminal misdeeds
are transforming our Eden
into the portals of hell

and the God that we follow
has previously rescued our fathers
and He hears the prayers of everyone,
has got the omnipotence to act
against the mammon
that draws up in hordes
in the new morning.

Every day it’s His pure light
that still constantly falls on us,
even when there is darkness
that now is at the order of things

and as long as we are living,
the hope remains that the almighty God
will bring His salvation like before
and we find our hope and trust in Him
and He draws his laager, His crowd of angels
around the house of each one
who trusts in Him and are awaiting His salvation
and let there burn flaming torches
in the churches of the night,
there is a new morning
on which we are waiting praying.

[Reference: Die kerke van die nag (The churches of the night) by Koos A. Kombuis.]

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