“it was like a switch went off....All the good memories, faith, and tenderness seems to have gone out of them.”
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That describes me and I didn’t take the jab. I’m this way because of what I’ve seen and experienced these last 4 years.
I hope to someday love my neighbor as myself but it’s well-nigh impossible at present.
I feel the same way.
I don’t think the jab turned a switch off in people’s brains. I think the jabbees are now preoccupied with thoughts, even if only in the back of their minds, of “OMG. What did I do to myself?”
The unjabbed are preoccupied with thoughts, but at the forefront of their minds, because we are more capable of critical thought and of facing, cold hard reality. After all, we didn’t get jabbed because we were capable of realizing how evil people can be and could envision the jabs as being part of this evil. And we get frustrated that it is taking so long for the jabbed to get it this and get mad and direct that anger in the right way.
Personally, I am preoccupied with thoughts now of what happens when and if the jabbed en masse realize what is in their bodies.
I want them to realize this. It’s a reality that has to be faced.
But how does that impact the unjabbed? I don’t feel I could trust a jabbed doctor to do right by me because my unjabbed status is proof that I was smarter than him. Is my job safe? Will the jabbed want to work around the unjabbed? Just as people get jealous of co-workers who have better clothes, better sales figures, etc., will they be jealous of those who don’t have the health worries that come with being jabbed? Will jabbed bosses lay off the unjabbed in a downturn because they see us as needing health insurance less?
All this distrust poses a challenge to my good memories, faith, and tenderness.
“With God all things are possible”-—Bible
Luke 10:27 ESV
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Loving your neighbor does not mean you approve of everything he does.
Don't misunderstand the message if you refer to the Gospel message. Someone shouting obscenities at you is in bad straights and needs help. You mustn't take that personal. If you say, 'May God richly bless you!' You are not surrendering to their diatribe, you are wishing the conviction of God's Holy Spirit on them.
As you may have often heard, God loves the sinner but not the sin. Jesus was not supportive of the scribes (lawyers) and Pharisees (flawed spiritual leaders.) But He never condemned them, he critically highlighted their worst faults. That is not an easy row to hoe. 'Satan' means 'accuser'. The Bible (Jude 1:9) says that the Archangel Michael dared not to bring a railing accusation against Satan while striving with him for the body of Moses; so he simply said, 'The Lord rebuke you!' Had he accused Satan of his legion of sins he would have trapped himself as Satan's disciple.
It is not easy at times; I do not preach that it is so. We love them because they are so far lost from the kingdom of heaven that they may never find peace and happiness. sigh 🙏