Zombies

Have we ceased to wonder?  Do we take time to look up at the sky, "that great, deep sea of azure that swims overhead; the winds sweeping through it; the black cloud fashioning itself together, now pouring out fire, now hail and rain; what is it?"  Such words were penned by Thomas Carlyle and referenced in A.W. Tozer's book, Knowledge of the Holy.  Tozer says that "we have grown use to it"-the world in all its beauty and splendor.  Carlyle goes on to write, "It's not by our superior insight...it is by our superior levity, our inattention."  And to this Tozer writes, "this world after all our science and sciences is still a miracle...to whosoever will think of it."

Tozer says, "secularism, materialism and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.  We cover our deep ignorance with words, but we are ashamed to wonder, we are afraid to whisper, 'mystery'."  This we do by neglecting the wonder of nature and on a greater scale, to think seriously about God, the Creator, the great "I Am, the Self-existent Self back of which no creature can think".  We prefer to think about the temporal problems like how to build a better this or that.  And Tozer goes on to say, "For this we are now paying a too heavy price in the secularization of our religion and the decay of our inner lives".

John MacArthur in his commentary on Hebrews writes, "One cannot help wonder how many thousands of people in hell were close to salvation, how many thousands were close to being safely moored and anchored only to drift away forever by their failure to receive what they heard.  Drifting is so quiet, so easy, but so damning.  All you have to do to go to hell is nothing."  Like zombies, this generation, who have chosen not to think about that which they cannot explain, wander around dead, moving, with only the appearance of life.  They have lost their wonder, their desire, and their purpose for living.

Look up.  Look at the sky in all its beauty and think.  Think of the Creator, the Creator of all that we see and still cannot fully explain.  And "know that He is God.  It is He that has made you and not you yourself."  Then get on your knees and ask Him for help and hope that He alone can supply.  "Call to Him and He will answer and show you great and mighty things you do not know."  "Our deep ignorance" will then be consumed by the "mystery" of the life of Christ.  "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for those who believe."  [Psalm 100:3; Jeremiah 33:3; Romans 1:16]  The power of the life of Christ, alone, will bring life to the generation of zombies, the living dead, who have ceased to whisper "mystery".