zombies

I have fought the whole zombie ‘hoopla’ for years now.

There is just something about zombies that make me want to turn the other way. Are they evil? I don’t know. Can they be used for evil?… yes – but, so can many things.

I’ve watched a few zombie movies with my husband… and I just don’t really feel that great after.

With that said – today, something caught my eye.
It was a sign… or a t-shirt… a bumper sticker. I don’t remember.

And, I’m sure I’ve read this so many times… but, today, I was ready to hear it in a different way.

“Zombies. The living dead.”

Looking at the world around me, I see ‘living dead’ all over the place. People who are acting like they are living… but, they aren’t.

They are dead and they don’t even know it.

This world is lost.
Sometimes I feel lost in it.

“We long for light but sink into darkness,
long for brightness but stumble through the night.
Like the blind, we inch along a wall, groping eyeless in the dark.
We shuffle our way in broad daylight,
like the dead, but somehow walking…“
Isaiah 59:9-11 MSG

Do you ever feel like that? I do…

Sometimes I feel like I’m pleading with my Lord to show me light in the darkness of my circumstances…

The truth is, it is broad daylight – but I am living like I can’t see.

Like the dead – but, somehow walking.

Here is the thing… Look what it says later in this chapter in Isaiah:

“God looked and saw evil looming on the horizon…”
then… “He did it Himself,
took on the work of Salvation,
fueled by His own Righteousness.
He dressed in Righteousness,
put it on like a suit of armor,
with Salvation on His head like a helmet,
Put on Judgement like an overcoat,
and threw a cloak of Passion across His shoulders…
I’ll arrive in Zion as Redeemer to those in Jacob who leave their sins.’
God’s Decree.”
Isaiah 59:15-20 MSG

Why do I choose to walk around bumping into things as though I am walking in darkness when I have been SAVED?
When My King has come dressed in Righteousness… bringing Salvation?

A couple of years ago we read a story to our children about a boy who was saved from a dungeon by the King. He was adopted and made a true prince… never to be a prisoner to darkness again. But, a day came when He was captured by the enemy of the King and put back in the dungeon. He was chained with the familiar chains that kept him in the dungeons before he had been saved. Oh, he tried to escape… but the chains were too heavy.

Until one day… a friend came along side him and asked the prince why he was there. The prince thought it was rather absurd that he was being asked this because clearly he was in chains. But what the prince didn’t realize was that he simply had to remove the chains. They were not bound to him. They were not locked. Darkness had no hold over him – the prince just chose to believe it did. The prince had been saved and was no longer bound to the dungeon or evil or darkness. He belonged to the King. But he wasn’t acting like it.

Am I acting like I am in bondage to sin still?

Do I choose to be bitter… or unforgiving… or disobedient because I believe I do not have a choice?

Zombies… they are dead and they don’t know it.

Me? I have been given LIFE.

I am confident that I am a child of the King – adopted into His family through pure grace.
Saved and redeemed.
I can claim all the beautiful gifts of abundant life promised to me as God’s child… and I can live this abundant life.
I am a child of the one true King – and that zombie sign reminded me to act like it.

What about you?

Are you living the life of a zombie?