What was it like to hear God command you
 to go back and kill all the women and children?

How did you do it?

Before you killed the children, what were they doing?

  Resting in their mother's arms?
  Playing with their friends?

Did they scream when you grabbed them?

How did you kill them?

  Did you pierce them with your sword?
  Did you cut off their heads?
  Perhaps you just strangled them to death?

What was God saying to you as you watched
  the blood stream from their sides?

"Well done, thy good and faithful servant."

"Good and Faithful" was written out of a desire to find answers to some of the tough questions that I had about my faith. I believe that God is loving, kind, and just. But in the Bible you run across stories which portray God as unloving and unjust. You see him commanding the Israelites to kill innocent children. This vengeful rage seems to contradict the love Savior that you see throughout the rest of the Bible. I could skip over those sections of the Bible and pretend they don't exist, but they do, and I am forced to wrestle with them. This poem expresses all the questions that I have.