The Living Dead
LAMPLIGHT DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path”
Psalm 119:105 (NIV).
“Living From the Eternal Perspective”
A Devotional From PATHH Ministries
DATE:
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
HEADING
The Living Dead
By Teddy A Jones
TEXT (Col. 3: 1-2)
3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.[NIV]
1You have been raised to life with Christ. Now set your heart on what is in heaven, where Christ rules at God's right side. 2Think about what is up there, not about what is here on earth. [CEV]
Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life—even though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God. He is your life. [Msg]
3For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God. [AMP]
COMMENTARY
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent black-and-white zombie film directed by George A. Romero. A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.The film follows 6 persons, who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in Pennsylvania and attempt to survive the night while the house is being attacked by mysteriously reanimated ghouls, otherwise known as zombies.
I am very aware that the phrase living dead conjures up exactly these kinds of images, but it leaps out at as us from this verse. There we see the juxtaposition in the same person a state of deadness and a vibrant liveliness!
Recall that it is precisely because we have been united with Christ in resurrection that we are challenged to decide on a higher mediation. Resurrection presupposes death. This verse thus reminds us of the death that we died. We have died to sin, died to worldly pleasures, died to having our own way. Just as Christ literally died, so too we with Him have become dead to sin, to worldly influences, pleasures and ambitions. In other words we are to be to them as if we were dead, and they had no more influence over us than the things of earth had over him in the grave. The sense is, that it has lost its influence ever him; he is not subject to it; he is in regard to that, as the man in the grave is to the busy scenes and cares of this life.
Yet there is still life! Though dead to one class of objects, you are alive to others. Alive with Christ, alive, responsive to and enthused by the things of Christ.
Something to Meditate on:
Does my reality match up to this view that God has of me? Is my Spiritual state of deadness to the world evidenced in my reality?
A decision I need to make
Am I more living to the to world than how I am alive to Christ?
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path”
Psalm 119:105 (NIV).
“Living From the Eternal Perspective”
A Devotional From PATHH Ministries
DATE:
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
HEADING
The Living Dead
By Teddy A Jones
TEXT (Col. 3: 1-2)
3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.[NIV]
1You have been raised to life with Christ. Now set your heart on what is in heaven, where Christ rules at God's right side. 2Think about what is up there, not about what is here on earth. [CEV]
Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life—even though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God. He is your life. [Msg]
3For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God. [AMP]
COMMENTARY
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent black-and-white zombie film directed by George A. Romero. A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.The film follows 6 persons, who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in Pennsylvania and attempt to survive the night while the house is being attacked by mysteriously reanimated ghouls, otherwise known as zombies.
I am very aware that the phrase living dead conjures up exactly these kinds of images, but it leaps out at as us from this verse. There we see the juxtaposition in the same person a state of deadness and a vibrant liveliness!
Recall that it is precisely because we have been united with Christ in resurrection that we are challenged to decide on a higher mediation. Resurrection presupposes death. This verse thus reminds us of the death that we died. We have died to sin, died to worldly pleasures, died to having our own way. Just as Christ literally died, so too we with Him have become dead to sin, to worldly influences, pleasures and ambitions. In other words we are to be to them as if we were dead, and they had no more influence over us than the things of earth had over him in the grave. The sense is, that it has lost its influence ever him; he is not subject to it; he is in regard to that, as the man in the grave is to the busy scenes and cares of this life.
Yet there is still life! Though dead to one class of objects, you are alive to others. Alive with Christ, alive, responsive to and enthused by the things of Christ.
Something to Meditate on:
Does my reality match up to this view that God has of me? Is my Spiritual state of deadness to the world evidenced in my reality?
A decision I need to make
Am I more living to the to world than how I am alive to Christ?
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