Zombies Exist

Yeah, you read the title right. They really do. I had to read an article for my cultural anthropology class (aside: one of the most spiritually dark classes I have ever seen) in which the author talked about his experience solving the mystery of zombification in Haiti. You see, in Haiti, zombies are widely believed in, based on many stories of people's lost ones coming back to them, after being buried for years, alive. As it turns out, Haiti is largely ruled by secret Voodoo societies, who act basically, with all the authority of the government. These societies choose citizens who are out of favor with them for some reason or another and cover them with a powder. This powder, among many other things, contains puffer fish poison, but just the right amount to slow down a person's metabolism and make them appear dead for an extended amount of time. After being pronounced dead, and buried, these "dead people" are dug up from the grave by the witch doctors and put to slave labor. They are kept in slave labor by being fed an extremely intense drug which inhibits their free will. Very few escape, but those that do only remember being paralyzed and not being able to do anything about their predicament.

I hated this story and agonized over the darkness of the whole situation UNTIL I realized that this is or has been true spiritually of us.

Our sin, however minor it seems, such as gossiping, flirting, or simply wasting time, inhibits our free will to such a degree that we become paralyzed. We allow ourselves to reach this state where we cannot, or don't want to get out of it. Paul says, in Romans 7:15-17, "For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me." Sound like slave labor much? We are doing what we hate? Don't you find that to be so true when you examine yourself? I despise myself when I see all these filthy things inside of me that reappear day after day that I promised I would get rid of. If this isn't connecting with you at all, you need to spend some time in serious self-examination in the Word. DON'T YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS???

Don't you want to stop being drugged by Satan and doing what he wants you to do? Don't you want to be free??? The solution is not hard to find! In 1 Corinthians 10:13, Paul tells us that God is faithful, and with temptation, WILL provide a way of escape! The emergency exit door is right there! Often times, when I don't feel like I've been seeing the emergency exit door, I find it's because I've hardened myself to the Holy Spirit. So when that happens, and I don't feel Him poking me when I am tempted, only after I've fallen, I have to pray to be sensitive once again to the Holy Spirit's convictions. Prayer works, guys, and it's not just some cliche phrase! It IS the only way to ask for help! You can't expect to be freed without ever talking to your Rescuer. He is WAITING for us to ask for help, to tell Him that we realize that we can't overcome our bonds without Him. He loves us so much, but He isn't going to force us to seek after His holiness. He gives us a choice to pursue holiness, or find out after the first time we've been zombified, or many years of being zombies, that we have been held in bondage.

I'm pleading with you, right now, PLEASE call on our Deliverer to get you out of that spot. PLEASE take the time to really think about your life, and in what areas have you allowed yourself to become zombified. You have a much higher calling than zombihood. Don't live your life, only to come to the realization that you never lived at all.

Please leave comments, corrections, anything below. I know I may have been a little off or something (it is 12:54 A.M. right now), so please tell me!