Walking for Christ
Ephesians 5:14 “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Have you ever noticed the routines of life? How everything is the same day after day? We get up, go throughout our daily activities, go to sleep, then do it all again the next day. Going through the motions, life seemingly has no meaning, until one day, you decide to give your life to Christ. You’ve awaken, and you realize that so much time has passed by, and you wonder “Why didn’t I do this sooner?” Life suddenly has meaning. You want to give up old habits, change up your routine some. You’re no longer just going through the motions. Your whole life has come alive, you have a purpose, a reason for living. That’s when you begin to notice that everyone around you is asleep, doing the same things you once did.
I often watch the tv show on AMC called “The Walking Dead”, and it’s based on a zombie apocalypse. For some reason, zombies have taken over the world, and there’s little life left. There are a handful of survivors, and the more the show progress, the fewer they become. As I’m watching the show, I realize that until we give our lives to Christ, we are nothing more than zombies walking the earth. We may be living, but we are dead on the inside.
Zombies are dead people who mindlessly walk the earth looking for people who are alive to eat. Once they bite a living person, that person becomes a zombie as well. And even is someone die of natural causes, eventually they will become a zombie too. When you think about it, that’s Satan’s job too. Satan walks the earth looking to suck the spiritual life out of us. To make us become busy with unhealthy habits, or negative influences that causes us to forget the reason we are here. The good news is, that when we give our lives to Christ, we gain life. We’re given the opportunity to live freely, we are awaken from that zombie-like state, and we are charged to wake others. That’s why the Word urges us to “Awake and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give the light.” And when we receive that light, we are called to “Let our light so shine before men, that they may see our good works, and glorify our Father which is in Heaven” as stated by Jesus in Matthew 5:16.
To live for this world is to die, to live for Christ and die to this world is to live eternally. When we make the decision to live a life that models Christ, our lives become more than about ourselves. We must become conscious about winning souls for our Lord, and we can’t straddle the fence to do it. It’s time to come out of that zombie-like state and recognize that life has so much more meaning when we live in Christ. It has purpose. So my question today is, “Are you ‘The Walking Dead’ or are you ‘Walking for Christ?’
© gracebuilthis@outlook.com 2015
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