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September 14, 2021

 

Two Years Down

 

for two years now

youve been telling us

we were wrong

for two years

all of you

told

all of us

we. were. wrong.

 

we were wrong to accept

mandated closures

 

we were wrong to accept

social distancing

 

we were wrong to accept

the wearing of masks

 

we were wrong to accept

forced vaccinations

 

we were wrong to do

what needed doing

to protect ourselves

to protect others

 

we were wrong

in our grasp of the Gospel

 

for two years you told us

in no uncertain terms

we. were. wrong.

you told us

often

that obedience to our government

had displaced obedience to our God

 

all of you

told

all of us

we. had. lost. faith

 

now

after two years

two. long. years.

of all of you

telling all of us

that we were wrong

you now assume the authority

to tell us whom to elect

 

for two years

you told us we were wrong

to trust the government

so death could be prevented

and horrors not come

 

now today

you tell us well be right

to trust new government

so liberty could be restored

and horrors not come

 

it is astounding

it is unbelievably vain

it is the height of hypocrisy

what you said then

speaks against

what you say now

 

if we could not trust the government during a pandemic

without sinning against God

displacing trust in Him

with trust in man

 

how can we trust a government now in the day-to-day

without sinning against God

displacing trust in Him

with trust in man

 


 

I posted the following on Facebook shortly after completing this poem; the comments in response were encouraging, reassuring and at times ironic.

 

“Over the past two years there have been some interesting arguments against the mandated COVID-19 precautions. (Social distancing; Wearing face masks; Reduced density social & worship gatherings; Vaccinations.) One is that by obeying the mandates Christians were somehow showing their lack of faith in God. I've spent many hours thinking about that and trying to make myself agree with it but I can't. God has given some things to man for him to fix. If not, then my wearing my glasses or taking my medications must also show my lack of faith in God and I don't believe they do.

 

What I find interesting is that many who for the past two years have told us to trust God instead of the gov't are now telling us that if we don't elect a certain party then we'll never recover our stolen liberty. I may have misunderstood, but it seems to me like they're saying that we should not trust the gov't when it guides us through a pandemic but we should trust the gov't when it guides us to liberty.

 

And I wonder, how does the one trust show a lack of faith in God while the other trust does not? The God who makes us whole is also the God who makes us one and is also the God who makes us free.”

 


Two Years Down

A poem by Peter Rhebergen

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