Walking Dead

 by Macy Johnson

“He looked up and said, ‘I see people;

they look like trees walking around.’”

(Mark 8:24 NIV)

 

During my morning devotional I read about how Jesus healed the blind man near Bethsaida. The story reminded me of zombies.

 

My husband was a fan of the television series The Walking Dead for a long time. I refused to watch it with him, thinking it was a waste of time. The zombies were dead, but they did not know it. They attacked living people in order to survive.

 

According to the internet, the eleven series drama is “based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman. This gritty drama portrays life in the months and years that follow a zombie apocalypse. A group of survivors travel in search of safety and security, constantly on the move in search of a secure home. But the pressure each day to stay alive sends many in the group to the deepest depths of human cruelty, and they soon discover that the overwhelming fear of the survivors can be more deadly than the zombies walking among them.”

 

There are people right now who roam the earth like zombies. They do not have the Holy Spirit living in them. They move from moment to moment in survival mode. They try to fill the holes in their hearts with worldly things. Only God can fill the holes He created in our hearts.

 

Jesus wants me to be more sensitive to their needs, like He was. I must reach out to those who are spiritually blind. I am not to fear them or run from them, but run to them and pour his unconditional love over them. He will take care of their souls as He promised.

 

I will seek out the walking dead and show them the love of Jesus. I hope you will, too!