She looked alive. Her skin pink with life. Her heart beating. But the light of life in her eyes had gone out.
How many of us are walking around today..our hearts beating, but there is no light in our eyes?
Zombies are such a sensation these days. The undead. Acting on their base natures. Stuck in some grotesque in between..not of their own choosing. They were bitten. This is who they are! There is no going back. They have no choice...do we?
"The virus ceases all bodily functions and mutates the brain into an organ that does not need oxygen. Thus, the essentially deceased person will become the living dead, with an insatiable drive to consume human flesh. An already deceased human cannot turn into a zombie, and there is no cure once infected." http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall09/harris_m/anatomy.html
While this is strictly fiction-is it really? I don't know about you, but this could not sound more like the current state of humanity. A brain with no conscious thought, with an insatiable drive to consume fellow humanity. Appearing alive, yet dead.
“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.”
Revelation 3:1-2 NIV
If we look back. If we really strain our eyes...way way back...to the beginning... we will see it clearly. Adam and Eve took the bite. It seemed good, but it turned bitter quickly. And it has taken a bite out of every one of us. The curse..it took the light of life from our eyes. It stole our hope, our dreams.
But we have a choice. We can either continue to believe the same lie the enemy has been saying from the beginning or we can allow THE LIGHT OF LIFE to come in. To illuminate our thoughts, our hearts, to empower us to rise above the base nature of our humanity. To make us alive.
"Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
Leonard Ravenhill
Leigh
