Halloween Decorations

I haven’t figured out why some folk go overboard with Halloween decorations. I can see Easter wreaths and Thanksgiving cornstalks and mums, but ghouls, skeletons, and witches?! Our neighborhood is over -the-top! One neighbor has a skeleton Dachshund. Another has a 12’ skeleton. Those things cost hundreds of dollars! But our neighbor at the top of the hill has outdone them all without even trying. The house is run-down with bushes overgrown and a broken-down car in the driveway. And they have a giant dead oak tree in the front yard. But because of the tree’s strategic location, three vultures have taken up residence in the tree! They can be seen in the morning warming themselves with partially outstretched wings. And as soon as they are warm enough, they are off to find road-kill breakfast from the night before. Real live vultures in your front yard?! It’s enough to make the rest of the neighbors just give up. It can’t be topped! Hey, that’s the way that the writer of the book of Hebrews describes Jesus Christ, our Great High Priest. He said in Hebrews 7:22&25, “By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. Wherefore he (Jesus) is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he (Jesus) ever liveth to make intercession for them.” Jesus is so perfect, so wonderful, so complete, that all you can do is to drop the mike and give up. Jesus is simply everything!