The Walking Dead – We Brought it on Ourselves

Greetings Dear Reader,

In the show one of the thing that is pondered is how the virus came to be in existence.  There is not too much time spent on the past because survival demands that the characters live in the now. 

As humans we tend to disbelieve the consequences that do not happen immediately.  The warning of the dangers of smoking is met with denial and rejection.  We do things that are unhealthy and dangerous believing that we will be the exception and not the rule.  We do the same with God’s rules for the world.  It is the fault of man that there is death to begin with.  The plague we carry inside us is that of the cost of sin.

We deny, rage, and malign God.  As a new wave of atheism sweeps the educated world, those who use the name of “god” to hate rise up in force.  Failure to follow God’s laws result in the acceptance of things that are clearly wrong.  So we die a little every day until we can live no more. 

My failure to obey God is not different from Adam’s or Cain’s.  My impending death is my own fault.  I cannot deny it and I cannot avoid it.  God, however, is not satisfied with condition we have created for humanity.  Since the price of our disobedience is death he assigns us the just penalty for it.  He also chooses to use death to redeem us from death. 

In The Walking Dead our main characters fight and claw to make it through each day.  They look for hope and now consider that there may be a cure.  We will get to the cure where God turns death into a fighting chance to live.  First we must accept out current condition.  It is only in seeing my culpability for my sin that I have any ground over which to reach a potential cure.

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."