Did you know the word ‘halloween’ came from the word ‘hallowed’? Which means holy. Halloween, a much “celebrated” day every year. But is it really Satan’s birthday? Or is it just for fun, candy and dress-up time? We personally don’t celebrate it. This time of ghost and spirits chasing is alarming to me. Are people realizing what they participate in? And is it then not a matter of believing it? Why believe the bad only and not look for the other side for the good?

Why am I writing this? Well Ephesians 5 verse 11 says; ‘And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.’ Bring it to light as the scripture follows. The light as in Light; Jesus. He’s not a ghost; He became man and went to heaven to intercede for us. Now we do receive the Holy Spirit. (Or a different name, Holy Ghost.) Is it a ghost then? Well you can’t see it, but it’s there, likewise you can’t see the angels, but they are also there.

I can tell you this: spirits are real, but you don’t want to mess around with them. Since Satan dwells among some of them. And spiritual matters should be left to God, not to us, man. He is in control of it all, He is the Holy Spirit.

So why the dark-death themed day? Why announcing these things to small children? Why scare them off and then treat them with candy? Why is it that these so called worldly holidays/events are misleading or taking us away from the Truth? Now that’s the Devil’s work. And that’s why we don’t celebrate halloween. We are not supporting his work by giving him a hand. Believe me, I love to see kids dressed up and handing out candy to good behavior. But why in such a circumstance?

The Lord’s prayer teaches us; ‘hallowed be Thy name.’ His name only. He’s not playing tricks on you, He only wants to treat! He’ll gift you with his spirit, the Holy Spirit. Who will dwell in you and will be hour helper. He gifted us with the life of His only Son, Who forgives all our sins. He’ll gift us with eternal life, to celebrate His glory.

So how much more do we want or need? Or rather have a bag full of candy, which will be gone in a few days. Memories of scary scenes that won’t make you fall asleep. Your child’s life engraved with dark impressions…

While in the meantime the Light is waiting to hand out His treats.

Recently I came across this quote; H.O.P.E.; Hold on Pain Ends. Very powerful few words. We all deal with pains from one way to another. Hope is all we need. But hope in-and what? What is Hope? Trust, full expectations. As a Christian we base hope on the eternal love. To share a piece of Bible text that really sums up the faith and hope: Romans 5: 1-5.

‘Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.’

To come back to my last piece of writing ‘Feeling Cursed’, tribulations we all face, but one more then another. How much can we handle? How do we persevere? Hope; hope, trust and expect; in the promise of God. Who stands above all, because His Love endures forever. We can blame Him for choices we made, but that’s not fair. God gave us the freedom to make our own choices, and how they are rooted and how they are made can be based on self-protection or on hope and trust in His love.

We all know it all ends for us someday, but is this really true? End, it’s over, nothingness. But then what meaning does hope have? Remember; Pain Ends. But what will begin? Love. Eternal Love. For God there is no beginning and no end. He is just that; ‘I am the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.’ (Revelation 22:13) But He promises eternal life to those whom believe; ‘For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal Life in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ (Romans 6:23) Christ put on our sins, our poor choices upon Himself for us whom believe.

So eternal means; no end. No end! Endless love; no pain, no sorrow, no hard choices, no hard situations, no. Just joy in love. So hope! Hope in Him, He’ll set you free!

Cursed; not the most inviting word. Where does it come from? Where are its roots? All evil comes from the Devil; he is trying to make our lives as much miserable as possible. Why? And why more to one person then another? Satan is willing to break a person, to keep you as far away from hope as possible. When terrible things happen in your life, you go through a period you may feel numb. After a while you realize you need to keep living. And you find the strength to do so, but over and over again you face bad situations. How much can a person handle? The word ‘crush’ is very close to ‘curse’, they work together, or more clear; Satan uses this. Trying to crush whatever hope you still have. And why more to one person to another? We are all made unique, the one person can handle more then another, but we all have a ‘crush-point’. And that’s exactly what the Devil is after. He doesn’t want you to be happy, to have hope, hope in a good future. Why he does that? Because he’s cursed himself, cursed by God Himself. Wanting to be like God. But no one can be, because there’s only One God. So thrown out of God’s Heaven, Satan’s after you… not wanting you to have hope, not wanting you to be happy. Because he knows what happiness can be like and he’ll never receive it himself.

It’s in these dark, bad situations that there are two forces pulling on you. You might not realize, but you’re getting pulled on your arms one way and your legs the other. Somewhat powerless; But! In the middle is your heart and it’s capable of choosing direction… You’ll either choose the direction of self-centered; I can do it all by myself, just like the Devil thinks and wants you to think like too. Or you’ll choose to give in and leave your live depending on Jesus. ‘The One who became a curse for us.’ (Galatians 3:13)

Here you might think; here we go again, another ‘Jesus-freak’. But let me tell you, you may feel like you are cursed, but Jesus actually was cursed, cursed for our sins, not His own, but ours. So when you getting pulled by two forces, the one way is screaming for your destruction, the other for hope and yes, delivery from your destruction! This is a choice we all have to make in life, for one day total destruction will come to this earth and to the Devil too. But for those who have faith, have eternal rest. Eternal rest!! No more pain, no more crushing situations. Just love and joy! You’re not alone; we all have to testify one day. And may we together share our hope and share in eternal love and joy through Jesus! ‘That we may receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.’ (Galatians 3:14)

‘Jesus said: Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for such is the kingdom of heaven.’ (Matthew 19:14) Believe like a child, it’s not hard. A child believes pretty much anything it hears… Just choose the right force, don’t get stuck in the middle, remember your heart being there? If the two forces both pull really hard, your heart will split in two; broken. And guess who wins then…

I do so hope and pray that you might find eternal rest, do not let your heart be broken, but fix it with hope, love and joy. Through Jesus!!