For a while I wasn’t sure what all the hype was about zombies. I just didn’t get all this over infatuation with zombies was all about. I mean what is so great about watching them on t.v. and killing them on video games. That is until my boys started getting me to watch The Walking Dead. They have sucked me into the idea that a zombie apocalypse could really happen. I still don’t think that in reality an apocalypse of walking dead people could really happen but shoot it makes for really good t.v. I mean the idea that walking dead people could take over the world is kinda really out there. I do think however that an apocalypse of some kind could happen. Then I began to think about this apocalyptic event, if it really could happen, and if this type of event has ever been thought about before.
My hubby had to preach one Sunday and he used Jeremiah 29 for his text of his message. In this passage the Bible talks about the Israelites being exiled. To them this must have been what an apocalypse must have felt like. I mean being put in a place that is not home to you where there is oppression upon the people. It may not be like running for your life from a zombie but just trying to survive in a land that you are exiled to and being oppressed by the people of this land must have felt very hopeless to the Israelites. Since I have been watching the Walking Dead with my boys, yes it is something we do as a family may not be the best thing to watch but you do learn some things about life in the show, I have watched the people on this show grow from life seeming very hopeless to resourceful people who have found hope in their lives in where they are at.
The Israelite people had to prepare for the time when they were going to be exiled just like the people of this time being being prepared for an apocalypse. I was watching a show about being prepared for some type of apocalypse and they were going over all the things that you should have to be prepared for any type of apocalypse and some of the things they were talking about not only were relevant for a zombie situation but some things that everyone should have in case a natural disaster happens. I thought about this and I told my son, I don’t even know how to read a compass. So then I went on a whole different type of thinking how do we prepare our hearts for any type of event that might take us to trust the Lord in every instance that may happen. I mean if a zombie situation did occur think about how much we would have to rely on God to get us through life in general. Only His guidance will bring us to a point of survival. Just like the Israelites depended on God during their exile, we have to take the time to rely on God even in the daily times not just in a disaster event.
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