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The Walking Dead

8/27/2013

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Two of my grown sons were watching a movie that I had heard was quite popular about zombies.  I learned that The Walking Dead is a series on cable television which was developed by Frank Darabont. Surprisingly, this horror series is based on a comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The lead character is played by Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-eating zombies. The Walking Dead is in its fourth season and zombies are still running amuck.

The few minutes I watched of the show, oddly enough, made me think about problems in our world today. How does one improve our world without harming our world? How does one help the diseased and hurting without hurting them? The medical community is searching for treatments that can effectively kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells or weakening the person.  The counseling community is looking for effective ways of bringing positive change that lasts to people who have abused others.

There are people who are walking dead spiritually. They go about emotionally or physically harming those around them. God sent His Son, Jesus as a cure that sets them free, yet the world is still running amuck with spiritually diseased people infecting those who are healthy.

There are Christians who try to escape the world and find a disease-free area to isolate themselves from the rest of the world. That is not the role we are called to live. Jesus prayed that we would NOT be taken from this world, but point people to the one cure.

John 17:15-18
My prayer is not that You take them out of the world but that You protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. 18 As You sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.


Thankfully, our world does not outwardly look as creepy as the portion of the program I viewed. You can make a difference today by pointing people to Jesus.


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