Living With the Walking Dead

Do you ever have a day when nobody seems to get you? Do you feel like you’re talking to a blank wall? Does it ever seem like you don’t belong anywhere? I think I am safe saying that most Christians feel that way at some time or other. You may be trying to explain over and over what you think is a simple example of living by faith. Or you’re in the middle of a group of young people who are talking about the latest vampire movie craze and you begin to think, “I’m in the twilight zone!”

Actually that is not surprising. If you are a Christian and are practicing your faith, you are living in a different world from most people. You are living in a world where there are dead people walking around. That may seem harsh to think of unbelievers as dead people but they are. They are dead spiritually.

Humans are made in God’s image. That means that they are triune beings: body, soul, and spirit. If a person is not a believer and has not accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior then they are, in fact, spiritually dead. No wonder it is impossible to have a spiritual conversation with them. They are living in the darkness. You are living in the light.

Romans 8:10 says, “And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.” Therefore, if you have made Jesus Christ Lord of your life the Holy Spirit has come to dwell within you. When the Holy Spirit comes to live in you, then you are made alive spiritually. Until then you are spiritually dead. You may be walking around. You may even look good. But you are dead and don’t know it.

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ...” (Ephesians 2:4-5 NAS). How important is it that we associate with people who are spiritually alive and not dead? It is essential. We should not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the path of the sinners (Psalm 1:1 NAS). What do we have in common with the walking dead when we are so full of the light? Nothing. Of course, we should have hearts that want to witness to the lost. We are called to be witnesses and to reconcile the world to God.

But the next time you are wondering why the world is so difficult to live in, remember that you are living with the walking dead. Yes, have compassion on them. By all means tell them about Jesus Christ and give them an opportunity to accept Him and be filled with life. After all we were all spiritually dead at one time in our lives. Before the Holy Spirit came to live in us we had no life in us. Now we have the Spirit of Almighty God inside of us. The same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead.

It should be a comforting thought when you wonder why you are not fitting in with some people. The reason you are not is because you are living in a world where there are dead people walking. Is there something you can do about it? Yes, there is. Share Jesus with them. Bring them into the Light if you can. Pray for them. Turn them from death to life. Then we’ll all be walking around alive!

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