As you read this there are combines in the fields or soon will be. Harvest will be well underway. The leaves on the trees will no longer be green but brilliant, reds, oranges or yellows. We may find that in the mornings a coat or sweat shirt may feel quiet comfortable. Yet there is something else this month that will cause children to be excited and looking forward to a special day. The children will be asking each other what will they be on Halloween. They will look forward to that day when they go from door to door greeting people with “trick or treat!”

As a child people would try to guess who you were. Sometimes they knew right away but sometimes they were stumped and did not know who was standing before them. However, what hasn’t changed over the years is that all of the witches, ghosts and so many other characters will all have a bag or container holding out for a special treat hoping that the treat will be their favorite. Always waiting to get home and see what all they have in their bags.

In Matthew 16 Jesus asks the disciples, “Who do people say I am?” They respond, “some say John the Baptist but others Elijah and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” ”’Then Jesus says but who do you say I am. Peter says, “You are the Messiah the Son of the living God.” This last statement is one we all know that Jesus is the Messiah of God. The question of Jesus is one for even today. Who do you say Jesus is? When we say He is the Son of God, we must live it not only on Sunday morning but every day. It is not an easy task for the world is always pulling at us to walk away. We are the ones that must keep in mind that Jesus is the one Son of God who died for us.

There is no trick here, but the treat is life not just in this world but in the world to come that is the best treat of all.