Sin: The zombie disease
There are two ways that someone can treat a diseased person. The first one you see alot. People find out you’re sick and they say “eww get away from me I don’t want to catch that.” or you may here someone say “I’m not going to talk to that girl she’s diseased!”
This first way is the way the Pharisees and alot of the Jewish community treated people with disease. They ridiculed them, they shunned them as ‘stricken by God’ the lepers were ‘unclean’. They did not treat the sick as equals, as worthy of love, they treated them as if they were the disease themselves.
The funny thing is that Jesus did not treat the diseased the first way, he treated them another way. While the Pharisees were saying “Unclean! Unclean!” Jesus was saying “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Jesus didn’t shun the sick, hehealed them, He is the good physician.
We are meant to treat the diseased with the same kind of love. We must rejoice more over the one sheep that was lost and is found than the ninety-nine that never wandered off, we must rejoice over this brother of ours who was lost and is found, was dead and is alive again. Sin is a disease, we stay alive physically, but on the inside we are dead…kind of like zombies. You could say that sin is the zombie disease, and Jesus is the only cure. We are not called to bring the already saved to Christ, but the lost, the ones struggling in their sins, we are to love them, to die for them if need be, that is the Christ way.
So if you have a problem with a group of ‘sinners’ remember that it was Jesus who ate with such people, and if you put yourself above them, you are putting yourself above Christ. He washed the feet of his imperfect friends, his sinner disciples, he came to serve not to be served and to give his life as a ransom for many. If we put ourselves above the ones that Christ came to serve, we are putting ourselves above the one we were meant to serve, to love.
In a figurative way (and possibly even a literal way) we are to wash the feet of the sinners. Humble ourselves and serve them the way Christ did. Doctors serve their patients, thats how they help them. Thats how we must help the lost.
