Don't Be a Zombie

Ahhhh... I finally have some time to write to you all! I officially went on Christmas break at 6:50 last night, so I'll try to catch up on blogging now.

Anyway, I've been thinking lately about zombies--you know, those soulless, undead creatures that crawl out of the grave and eat brains and pleasant things like that. (Fortunately, they're also imaginary.) People don't like zombies because zombies tend to destroy everything living people are working for. They look sort of like normal people, but they create chaos. Their sole goal in their strange existence is to make more of them by dragging normal people down and eating their brains. Nice picture, isn't it?

Now what does this have to do with the Christian life?

Well, as Christians, we have been made alive in Christ. We are "normal people." We are dead to sin and alive to righteousness. We are--or should be--working to build Christ's kingdom here on earth.

But Satan is always prowling, trying to destroy Christ's work. He especially likes to create discord in the body of Christ, because this absolutely ruins our witness. Why should others become Christians if we Christians are sinning against each other all the time? We say we're dead to sin and alive to righteousness, but we certainly don't live like it.

Essentially, we become zombies. We're still Christians, yes, and we're still technically alive in Christ, but we act like we're undead slaves of sin. We pick at each other and drag each other down and never really think that perhaps there might be better things to do than eat each other's brains, figuratively speaking.

I don't mean to be a downer, but this is often how we Christians operate. We get so involved in ourselves that we don't take the time to see that we've become zombies and we're destroying everyone around us.

There is a cure, though. Zombies don't have to stay zombies. If we focus on Christ and what we can do for Him rather than on what He can do for us, we'll break out of our zombie shells and become "normal" again. Then, and only then, can we really effectively serve Christ. Who ever heard of a zombie helping people?

So, my friends, don't be zombies. We should focus on Christ instead of ourselves and please, let's refrain from chomping on each other's brains. Brains really don't have much nutritional value...