Ephesians 2:1-10

Read the passage here at Bible Gateway.

I like zombies. They make such cool horror movie staples that I can't imagine the genre without them. You just don't feel bad when a shambling undead corpse gets put back in the ground, often with a vengeance.

I can't help but think that the author here is kinda comparing us, pre-salvation, to zombies. The living dead. Verse 1: we were "dead" in our transgressions/sin. Even moving around, going through life, we were already dead. The only difference was the time it would take for that fact to catch up with us. Verse 2: we were following the world and satan, both of which have only destruction in mind for us. Verse 3: we lived for ourselves and ourselves only, and because of that, became the objects of God's holy wrath.

We were shambling dead men and women, and we didn't even know it.

The rest of this passage shifts from this horrible thought to not how God eradicated the zombie threat, but how He redeemed it. We were "made alive" (v.5) in Christ, saved "by grace" (v.5) and "raised up" (v.6) into God's presence and love.

Great verse for the day: "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:8-10)