Walking Dead

“O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.” Psalm 30:3

It is easy for the child of GOD to understand this statement.  “O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave:”  Before trusting CHRIST we were the walking dead and nothing more.  We are those, “who were dead in trespasses and sins;”. (Eph. 2:1)

We never knew what life was until we were, “born again”.  We thought we knew life, but until we tasted full salvation we had no idea what life really was. “Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:” (Eph. 2:2)  But now through CHRIST “thou hast kept me alive”

How sad it is for those that believe what they have now is life, not knowing that only through the grace of GOD can they experience what life truly is.  They might receive some satisfaction by their dead works of kindness but in the end they have never know life.  JESUS is the "Way, the Truth and the LIFE"!  CHRIST and Him alone gives life, “that I should not go down to the pit.”

Life is just the opposite 

Then you might even think.

We’re all born dead,

Sitting at Hell’s brink.

In sin we’re born dead.

Thinking we have life.

Walking in the world

In all its sin and strife.

O but JESUS gave His all,

On that cross of death.

Dying in our place,

Giving lasting breath.

“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:” Ephesians 2:4-6