Yet another weird dream, the product of watching "The Fog" while trying to study the scriptures during the commericals. In this dream, a fog covered the town and those who breathed it in become ravenous zombies thristy for blood (mwhahahaha!). "My family" ( I use quotes because they were not my real family but in my dream we had an apparent connection) and I are trying to escape the town. The military come to our aid and recuse us from our homes loading us up in buses. Through the course of the dream we are almost attacked by a mob of zombies and in talking to a young lieutnenant who recused us we determined what the zombies are searching for based on whose houses they were attacking; pastor's, church houses, christian homes.

"They are seeking the blood of the righteous."

"And the blood of the Lamb, the blood of the righteous saves," I replied.

When the coast was clear, the bus stopped. My family begged me not to get off but the Lieutenant and I had a plan. If it meant a few would have to die for the many, then it was worth the cost. Ironically enough, we were close to a graveyard and ordered the people in the buse to strap us to the tombstones so that we could not run away no matter what. They did so and left us tearfully. When next we looked, the lieutenant and I were surrounded by zombies. They circled hungrily but we were not afraid...even as they knawed and tore as our flesh and drank us dry of blood. The plan worked though and by drinking our blood they were all cured and returned to normal. The lientenant and I died and I woke up. Two scriptures come to mind when I recall this dream now:

"But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!"  ~ Romans 5:15

"You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." ~Romans 5:6-8

I am also reminded of Psalm 1, where David writes that a righteous man delights "in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night." We cannot control our dreams but in this case God used this one to remind me of some very important lessons, selflessness amoung them. Would I contemplate dieing for an unbeliever, if it meant that they might live to one day know Christ? What greater testimony could I leave behind?

Ndosch