trick or treat?

well its that wonderful time of year again.. halloween. if you know me at all you know halloween is not at the top of my list for "favorite holidays" i jokingly say that it's the "devil's holiday" unfortunately the more time i spend thinking about it, the more i realize it truly is.

and don't get me wrong. i grew up trick or treating and had a great time, but it seems as though many people go a little over board for this "holiday"

for example, why in heavens name would we celebrate scariness? why would we dress up little innocent children in costumes that resemble the devil and find this normal? how exactly is this fun? i have many questions about this specific day..

my number one issue is that we spend so much time/money on devil like activities. making the devil look fun or appealing. for example i went to my first actual haunted house when i was a senior in high school. yes, you read correctly, senior in high school. i have always been a bit emotional and i scream when i hear loud noises. for that reason alone i never felt the need to attend haunted houses. well regardless, back to the story... my friends decided that to celebrate this wonderful "holiday" we were all going to one of the scariest haunted houses around. after much pleading i fell to peer pressure and decided to go. note to self: BAD DECISION. needless to say i did not have a good time. i'm pretty sure i peed my pants and cried the whole entire time i was there.

we as a society have created a holiday making hell look like fun. making hell look like a decent place to go. but if you only knew!! Jesus says if you saw what hell was like, like if you just saw a few seconds or a seek peak of what hell is really like, you would be radically changed, forever. you would be so changed because you would NEVER want to go there. He says many times that He would have it that NONE shall perish but EVERYONE would have everlasting life. He would never want His precious children going there, EVER. Jesus says that if anyone does not recognize that I AM their Lord and Savior their name will not be written down in the lambs book of life and they will be thrown into the lake of fire. lake of fire... I can not imagine! that's unbelievable torture that i can not even begin to wrap my mind around.

Jesus and the disciples talk about hell 65 times in the bible where as heaven is mentioned 32 times. this is a prime example of how Jesus wants to warn everyone! i'd be lying if i said hell wasn't real. i wish i could say that but i'm not about preaching a gospel about rainbows and butterflies when truthfully the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is at hand!!!

i remember having a conversation with a friend once. she begin to tell me how she doesn't believe in a single thing. she doesn't believe in god, jesus, heaven, hell.. nothing. she just has no belief in anything. i remember looking at her and saying, "wow! you have much more faith than i do! i would never want to bank my eternity on just not believing. when you think of the short time we spend on this earth compared to eternity (we are but a vapor here today and gone tomorrow) i could go on and on about this subject.. maybe my next post. but if you're reading this and you question if you're going to heaven or hell i'd love to pray for you. i'd love to talk to you about it. comment or message me.

trick is that this world is the be all, end all. Hate to break it to everyone who believes that, but it's not!! trick is that hell is a far away aspect..

treat is Jesus! treat is that He came to give us everlasting life with Him. treat is that he died for me, and you! treat is that Heaven is the biggest party ever. treat is HE LOVES YOU! HE THOUGHT YOU WERE WORTH DYING FOR!!!

-xoxoxox sorry for the bluntness of this post

:)