For the past five years one of the most popular television programs has been “The Walking Dead,” a series about a zombie apocalypse. We, human beings, are strange creatures fascinated with the gross and the bizarre. Is it part of our natural curiosity or is it the fruit of our degenerate natures? Perhaps it is a combination of both.
I thought about proposing the premise that the world is already full of “The Walking Dead.” I was about to opine that anyone who has not accepted Jesus and the gift of eternal life is part of that lost group. I was wishing them a really good life here since this is all they are going to get. However, here comes the however, Jesus warned me against judging. I am not the one positioned at the gate of heaven with the right to admit or refuse. I do not know what goes on in people’s thoughts.
Could it be that God loves people so much that He decides not only who has accepted the gift but He knows who would have accepted the gift had it not been for the fact that they met us and we turned them off? Romans 1:20 reads, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” Could it be that millions will be saved without ever hearing of Jesus because they did respond to the wonder of His power?
The Bible is very clear that there are among us “The Walking Dead.” But it definitely is not our call as to who’s who. God is more gracious and more generous and more merciful and more knowledgeable than any of us.
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