Why You're More Similar to a Vampire Than You Could Possibly Imagine
Below is an excerpt from my diary about my reflection on vampires. You can also find some screenshots of my actual journal.
Jounal entry about vampires:
Vampires are scary not because they are frightening creatures of our imagination but because they are a depiction of our fallen nature. For me, they are a symbol of depravity, of a great lack within their being.
They are afraid of the light, much like most of us are afraid of the great light of God before whom nothing unholy can stand and before whom we burn like vampires exposed to the light. And since we cannot stand the light, we wonder about and live our lives in darkness.
Vampires also need blood because they lack life. But in order to get it, they must take someone else's life, someone else must die. Are we not the same? We live only by Christ's precious blood, and in order to have it, He had to die and offer His very life for us all.
We are like vampires that appear attractive on the outside but filled with sores and all sorts of depravity within. We often deceive ourselves and others with an angelic facade while we truly remain in shame knowing the monster that hides beneath all the masks we wear.
Yet through it all, God still loves us and has mercy upon our seemingly hopeless condition. He sees what we can be. He sees that little spark of beauty still left in us, a reminder of the glorious image for which we were made.
