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Whose day is it anyway?

It’s Halloween and you know what that means: all sorts of hype and excitement, candy, decorations, opinions, histories, fears and beliefs. I have read so many articles this past week, some of which passionately list all of the evils of the day and some of which vehemently defend it. The day is like an onion. There are so many layers and meanings and motives and I’ll be the first to say that I have not researched it as much as I should. But, there is one thing that I do know: Today was NOT Satan’s day!

Today is the day that the Lord has made. It's the Lord's day!

Whether you closed your doors or opened them, whether you went out our stayed in, whether you went to a church function, dressed yourself or your kids up or went to bed early is between you and God, but whatever you did, remember: Today is God’s day! A day to rejoice in the fact that death has been swallowed up in victory!

Here is the passage that best represented my perspective toward all of the “death” today:

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
(I Corinthians 15:51-18)

This is the day that the Lord has made. Let’s rejoice and be glad in the victory that has been won over death!



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