WALKING DEAD

Walking Dead.

It's a popular TV show about The walking dead. How about that, it tells you in the title what to expect.

It's about zombies. They are dead, walking around and trying to increase their numbers by infecting others.

What does this have to do with Spiritual things? This will probably sound strange, but it reminds me at times what it's like to try and live a Christian life.

We live in a world of sin. We are Born again and given eternal life thru Jesus Christ. Psalms 4:3 says, “Know that the LORD has set apart His faithful servant for himself;” But, we have to stay alert. If we put ourselves in places to be tempted and give in to it, it's like our testimony, our witness, is destroyed. The world wants to effect us so that we are not set appart. It wants to effect us and make us one of them.

Peter 5:8 says, “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” In the show, this is literal. Spiritually, the devil wants to keep others away from true life. He wants them to stay a zombie and to effect others. He doesnt want the dead to learn about God's love and how His Son died for our sins. Psalms 115:17 says “The dead do not praise the Lord, Nor any who go down into silence.”

The Bible says we are already condemned. We are walking dead until we accept Christ as our Savior. John 3:16 – 18 says “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.”

The show also has hinted at who really is the walking dead? Is it the zombies? Or is it the living? The Walking Dead TV show says that everyone was infected by a virus. That it is already in us. So we are dead already, just waiting to see how it ends. Looking at it spritually, when Adam and Eve sinned, it basically created a sin virus that is already in us. We are walking around dead and waiting to see how our life ends. Unlike the show, we have a cure. That is Salvation through Jesus. Admit He is your Savior, Believe He is the Son of God, and Confess your sins and TURN from them.

I know this is a little different, but some times, to reach others you have to speak their language. You have to show them in a way they may understand. Or at least get their attention and make them think.

Hmm, I wonder what I should do next.
Vampires and how the blood is important to life and how the Shedding of Jesus' blood is important to our life.
Frankenstien, how man tries to make himself in his own image instead of accepting that God made us in His image.

Wolfman and how under certain situations he gives into his nature?

Or Dr Jeckle and Mr Hyde. How you may live fooling others that you are like them, but when they are not around you show your evil side.