Let’s ask the question: How can a living, breathing person also be dead?
We’re not talking about zombies, either. So, let’s ask the question again. How can a living, breathing human also be dead? Especially, and this is important, if he or she is walking around as a normal person would.
Those alive in the middle of the 20th century will remember the Bataan Death March. In 1942 the Japanese force-marched tens of thousands of American and Filipino POWs upwards of 80 miles through tropical heat. They were given no food or water, and those who fell were bayonetted or beheaded.
The moment they started out, these men considered themselves on a death walk. The chances of survival in those conditions were slim to none.
Those who made it to their destination fared little better. They were not given food for three days after their arrival, and they continued to die at the rate of 50 per day.
That’s old news, some might say. It was war time, and that could never happen again.
Yet, it is happening even as we read this. People are on a death walk right now, and they are people we know, people we work with, perhaps even people we are married to.
Ephesians 2:1-2 tells us we “were dead in the trespasses and sins in which [we] once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.”
We were alive and dead at the same time. Oh, our physical bodies breathed in air and moved when our brains told our muscles to carry us hither and yon. However, our spirits were already dead, for there was no hope for our redemption.
Then the Father of all creation intervened. Genesis 1:1 tells us: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” He gave life to all creation. Then, when his creation was on a death walk to hell, our Father gave us life again.
He gave us Jesus.
As John 10:28 relates in Jesus’ own words: “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
We are on a death walk when we walk in the world. We walk in life when we walk with Jesus. Which is better? Read the tales of the survivors of the Bataan Death March. The devil makes the world seem attractive, but the end result is the same.
Let’s be smart. Let’s choose life. Let’s choose Jesus.
Our body might die, but our soul will live forever. Let’s make sure we pay attention to where we will spend eternity.
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