January 12, 2022

The statistics are clear – vaccination is the best defense against all forms of the corona virus. Unvaccinated people have a much higher risk of serious illness and death. Many vaccinated people are frustrated with those that aren’t vaccinated and blame them for the safety measures we are all enduring. “Why don’t they help themselves? If they get sick (and die), they have no one else to blame!”

Where am I going with this? Theologically speaking, we are all the unvaccinated. We have done nothing to help ourselves. “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)

No one really has a righteous leg to stand on. We are all to blame. But… Jesus took the blame for us.

“Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.” (First Sunday after the Epiphany – BCP)