AMC had a series on at one time called The Walking Dead.  Never watched it.  Saw clips.  From the clips and friends that watched it, the show had a lot of people that we dead but just walking around.  They were destroying everyone and everything in their path.  They were dead people walking.

 

That is what most people are today.  They are dead inside walking through life.  No purpose.  No meaning.  No direction.  Just existing from one day to the next.  Hopeless.  Helpless.  Lost.

 

When Jesus came to this earth, his very existence screamed that there is life.  Real life.  Life worth living.  “I am the way, the truth, and the LIFE.” he told his disciples.  “In HIM is life.” John writes in the beginning of his gospel.  Life is not just knowing about Jesus, it is living IN HIM.  This to many sounds difficult, but it is not.  Take two lovers, Beloved.  They seek to know every detail about each other.  They want to please the other mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically.  They hang on every word spoken by the other.  Each touch, each smile, each caress is engraved into their soul, just to remember what pleased the other.  Desire to please, build, encourage grows with each day. 

 

 

Now this intensity between lovers, is the same in our relationship with Christ.  To know HIM is to have life.  Hanging on each word, brings a breathe of fresh vision about one’s existence.  HIS touch drives one to stretch further toward an impossibility.  HIS example compels us to envision the endless possibilities of what can happen in our lives.  Just like being in love.  For that is what it is with HIM.

 

Today, open your heart.  Let JESUS bring life into you.  Do not be a dead man walking, live a life that will give you purpose, meaning, and love.  Live life in JESUS.