I Am Legend Continued

The other night as a was in a half state of sleep I started thinking about the movie I Am Legend again.  I watched it a few weeks back again and was still amazed at the messages interwoven in it.  I was thinking about the couple scenes in the middle where the one creature/human comes out into the sunlight to try to attack him even though that would kill him.  Will’s character later documents the fact that the degeneration is complete and all the human characteristics are gone.

I thought isn’t that like us spiritually?  As we begin and then continue to sin, as the humans lost physical human characteristics and instincts, we begin losing Godly characteristics.  Sure at first it is not noticeable but if we continue on that path, it becomes ingrained in our very spiritual life until we can’t even recognize any Godly characteristics at all.

And like the creatures/humans at their worst, they begin hitting their heads against the wall trying to get what they want.  And we do the same thing.  We will do what we want to the point where it hurts us spiritually, usually emotionally and sometimes even physically.  And they didn’t want that cure.  He kept saying “I can help you” but they didn’t even want to listen.  Some people don’t care about the fact that God can turn their lives around. They’re perfectly fine in the life they are living.

But as the doctor sacrificed himself knowing he had the cure and knowing it was the best for them and the future of the world, Christ died for us knowing if people would just believe, their life would be changed.  Then in the future, a new world would be established and humanity would be saved from itself.

I know I’m eternally saved but sometimes I’ve gotten into places where I’ve figuritvely began hitting my head against the wall, doing things I know strips me of Godly characteristics and sends me down a path of spiritual and emotional destruction.  But I’m so thankful for God’s love, mercy and grace that He already sacrificed Himself so that when I’m ready for a change, He’s there waiting on me.