A Life Worthy

Tag: Halloween

  • One-a-Day Friday, 10/31/14

    number 1Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel.  They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and we are cut off.’  Therefore prophesy to them and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them…Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.  I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live…(Ezekiel 37:11-13).

    Today’s Halloween.  My neighborhood is covered with skeletons and open graves.  They are meant to be scary, or funny, or…

    You know what, Beloved?  I’ll bet no one is intending these images of death to be comforting.  And yet, I’ll never look at bones or graves the same way again.

    Thanks, God.

    Your Word wins.

  • One-a-Day Thursday, 10/31/13

    Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual number 1songs.  Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 5:19-20)

    Today is Halloween.  A day on which this fallen world celebrates death and darkness.  Oh, they wrap it in candy and pumpkins, but it is what it is.

    Instead of Halloween, make today your personal Thanksgiving.  Make a point of noticing the blessings in your life.  Point them out to your friends and praise God together.  Pick your favorite worship song and get it stuck in your head.  In short, fill yourself with life, not death…with light, not darkness.

    Yes, you can still eat candy.

  • One-a-Day Thursday, 10/24/13

    number 1For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light… (Ephesians 5:8)

    Right now our neighborhood is decorating for Halloween.  Witches, ghosts, tombstones, zombie creatures, bloody body parts—they cover the lawns and hang from the windows of houses up and down our street.  If ever there was a time that glorified darkness, this is it.

    As children of God, we are called to be different.  We are light. Notice that the verse doesn’t say that we have light, but that we are light.  Light has nothing to do with darkness.  I’m not saying that it shouldn’t, but that it can’t.  Go into a dark room and flick on the light switch.  What happens to the darkness?

    Gone.

    Just as sin can’t exist in the presence of God, darkness can’t exist in the presence of light.  Don’t kid yourself into thinking you can play the games that the world plays.  If you dabble in darkness, you can’t live as light.

    Does that mean that you can’t be living for Christ and have witches hanging from your windows and zombies bursting forth from your lawn?

    Pretty much.

    Look, I don’t want to step on any toes.  I’ll let God do it.

    Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.  For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?  Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?  (2 Corinthians 6:14)

    Where there is no light, there is darkness.

    Where light is, darkness cannot be.

    Go, Beloved of God, and live as a child of light today.