Zombies are all around us. They are the living dead...
I read recently of a young man who had everything the world says is needed for a happy life. He is 32 years old, handsome and rich. The company he owned had him traveling all over the world and he partied like a rock star.
Yet one day he realized that his life was not a happy one. In a blog posting he said something along the lines of:
"I didn't like the people with whom I had surrounded myself: Businessmen, socialites, club promoters, and models bored out of their minds from 5 nights per week of nightlife... I felt trapped by this lifestyle that I bought into, and I wasn't proud of who I had become. I wasn't necessarily ashamed, but I certainly wasn't proud. This isn't who I wanted to be."
Why?
Because he was a Zombie, a member of the walking dead.
No amount of success or partying can cover up the fact that without Jesus Christ we are not fully alive. Dead men walking, zombies...
"As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath." Eph 2:2-4 (NIV)
Zombies, they are all around us all the time. The "living dead". Those of us who have accepted Christ are no longer walking with them, we are alive.
Paul goes on to tell us in Ephesians,
"But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." vv5-10
Each and everyone of us has a purpose and a destiny. But to find this destiny, it must start with a life that has not only accepted Jesus Christ, but is fully submitted to his will.
In order to become fully alive we must know the very source of life. God created us, and it is in Jesus Christ we have life.
And in that life, we find our purpose.
We have the answer to that age old question, why are we here?
To accomplish the works God has prepared for us to do since before we were born.
