Happy
Halloween..Harvest fun dress up and eat candy day?
Oh....Halloween.
To celebrate, or not to celebrate. That is the question. Or is it? I think the real question, about
Halloween and really everything, is to glorify God, or not glorify God?
Candy is
not, apart from the terrible amount of sugar, evil. Costumes, in general, are
not evil. Pumpkins with little toothy grins are not evil. Dressing up and being festive with our
neighbors is not, necessarily, evil. But, oh how quickly those things can be
corrupted. Zombies, ghosts, witches,
vampires, murderers, psycho possessed dolls that give you nightmares for
years...not so good. Halloween is one of those events that can very quickly
escalate into tolerating (if not celebrating) things that do not glorify
God.
The line
is so easily blurred on this. On one hand, we tell ourselves that we aren't
really celebrating the bad part of Halloween. It's just fun to dress up and get
candy on a night where everyone else is doing it, too. It's so cute to see
little kids dressed up as pumpkins, and monkeys, and princesses. But on the other hand, we have to ask
ourselves how going out among people who ARE glorifying demons, and satan, and
characters that directly oppose everything God is and stands for and just
letting it all slide for our own fun is good?
Is there really such a thing as a neutral activity? Doesn't everything
we do say something about who we are and what we believe in?
But what
if we used this night as an opportunity? What if you dressed up in character to
be able to open the door to make a difference? It could be a tract, but it
could also just be having a great conversation with someone about what the Lord
has done in your life. I guess what I am saying is, take an honest look at your
priorities. Do you (and your desire for
fun and free candy) come first, or does glorifying God come first? You need to talk to Him about how that looks.
I'm not going to do that for you.
As for
us, two little princesses will be
handing out candy at our church booth at the town Safewalk. We have decided that our family is going to
make the most of every opportunity. There are going to be a lot of things we
have to explain to our children, but they are going to grow up knowing that we
don't stand with our toes on the line. We are going to make every effort to
glorify God, even if we are only a very tiny light in the darkness.
I know
that won't be a very popular opinion, but there it is anyway. I hope you will
at least think about it. Blessings!
